Entry n0 8

Training criminals

Last week i was in a bar with a friend and we had a very sad experience. It was a very cold night and a boy of abaut nine years old, who was in in very thin clothes, came to our table to offer us some flowers. He was a very nice boy and he told us that he had to sell all the flowers because if he didn´t his father, who was at the corner waiting for him, would hit him. My friend bought him a bunch of flowers and as he looked hungry, we invited him some pizza.He accepted and he stayed a minutes talking to us. But some minutes later his father called him very angrily and he rushed scared. But the most stricking thing was that a moment after the boy left we realised that he had stolen my friend´s cell phone that was on the table. Why would he do that? We were very nice to him and he looked so naive! We couldn´t believe that a boy of only nine years old could steal us in such inadvertenly way. We felt like fools because we never suspected of him.

Whenever i think of that experience i feel sad because it´s not difficult to imagine the future of that boy. He, as millions of children in our country, is being trained by his parents to be a future criminal. In most cases, children who live in the streets are taken by adults who teach them to steal for them because they know that small children cannot be in jail and in most cases they are taken to reform schools where they stay for a short period.

I think that the only responsible of this problem is the governmet. they should provide these children a place to live and to be educated because the key of amy social problem is education.