And when I saw these children and realized what they had to expect in the future, I could not but continually ask myself: ‘Which of them is the worst criminal--this child or the judge who condemns every year hundreds of children to this fate?’ I gladly admit that the crime of these judges is unconscious.
He poses a provocative question about the nature of crime, comparing the innocence of children to the culpability of judges who condemn them.
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