Twenty children aged between 12 and 16 were arraigned before the Juvenile Court in Gozo and sixty-one in Malta last year, the Home Affairs Minister, Tonio Borg, said in reply to a parliamentary question put by Labour MP Adrian Vassallo.

The Minister said that ten of the cases in Gozo were arraigned for fights, seven for damaging property, two for causing bodily harm and one for driving without a licence and damaging a third party vehicle.

Whilst in Malta forty-one were arraigned for breaching the peace, fights, threats and foul language, six for theft, five for damaging vehicles, causing injury and driving without a licence, two each for prostitution, bad use of telecoms and urinating in public and one each for drug possession, giving false details and unlicensed possession of a weapon.

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