Most kids that age are worried about homework, but one twelve-year-old was busy stealing cars and unloading them for shockingly little. In at least one case the vehicle changed hands for a mere thirty dollars, a tiny payoff for a crime carrying enormous risk.
Stories like this expose a troubling pattern of young people pulled into auto theft long before they can legally drive. The meager rewards rarely match the danger involved, raising hard questions about how these children end up behind the wheel of someone else’s car.