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A 12-year-old lady has become the very first person beneath 16 in Britain to become electronically tagged, it emerged yesterday.
The device, fitted to her right leg
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Tiffany Crystal, director with the Offenders Tag Association, mentioned the girl was with the lowest age at which everyone could be tagged in Britain and was the initial person of her age to get tagged.
"She may be the 1st girl and it's a brave shift," he explained.
"It has long been utilized inside the US for a whilst now and if it's correctly managed then it operates. We phone it 'caring monitoring'.
"Although it might show up draconian it could rescue a person from a lifestyle of crime and that has received to be worth it."
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was ordered to get tagged by magistrates in Walsall, West Midlands
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If she ended up to stray from her property a pager message can be sent immediately into a bail officer who would speak to a personal security firm to arrest her.
Magistrates ordered her to remain out of the town centre soon after she was accused of mugging another 12-year-old for her cell phone and £5 cash.
The tag was fitted when she broke the bail conditions.
The tagging of young offenders was introduced last yr for children between the ages of 12 and sixteen as part from the 2001 Criminal Justice Act.
The girl's solicitor, David Grice, mentioned: "I welcome this as preferable to the alternatives
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