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Children likely to be pleading guilty when innocent. Young people need additional support and protection in the criminal justice system because they are more susceptible to pleading guilty when innocent, a new study argues. Source 1f.
The feeling of guilt in children could be defined as the emotional restlessness that arises after committing an action that is known to be inappropriate or that hurts others. It is precisely because of the nobility of heart of the little ones that guilt has a special impact on them. This is a powerful, damaging and paralyzing emotion.