“I read that three 12-year-old boys will attend a ‘youth conference’ under the Young Offenders’ Act for the offence of ‘cause bushfire’ following two separate deliberately lit fires in the Lake Illawarra area at the weekend” a Topical reader says. “Poor kids, 12 years old and evidently just too young to realise that fire and dry grass and timber can be dangerous.”
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Blake Jarrett
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Topical 16/4/24
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