Davis County Clipper | 1990-01-17 | Page 9 | Parents may be Jailed for Actions of Children

Parents may be jailed for actions of children for contributing to deliquency if they in any way assist with obtaining obtain-ing alcohol or drugs for minors. r - - In some instances, parents can be fined or jailed for their child s offense. with new "parent-liability" laws in which parents can be fined or jailed for their child's offense. K. D. Simpson of the Davis County Sheriff s Department explained, ex-plained, "Most crimes involving parent-liability involve ATVs and drinking and drugs.' When children, who are too young to receive driver's licenses, are allowed by their parents to drive ATVs up and down the street, the parents can be cited. Parents or any adult can be cited - FARMINGTON Last year, teen-agers accounted for almost 69,000 arrests for such violent crimes as rape, murder, robbery and aggravated assault. "Good Housekeeping's" November issue stated that more than 1.5 million teen-agers were arrested for nonviolent non-violent crimes. The highest number was for larceny-theft, and the majority of those arrested were ; boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 14. Due to these statistics, many states are beginning to crack down