why is 13 year old nathaniel abraham being tried as an adult and facing life in prison?”
Nathaniel Abraham, killer at 11, sentenced in unrelated drug case By The Associated Press January 05, 2009, 11:40AM AP PhotoNathaniel Abraham, 22, appears in 50th District Court in Pontiac on June 10. PONTIAC — A man who spent his adolescent years in state custody for a rifle-slaying he committed at age 11 received a four-to-20-year prison sentence Monday on a drug conviction. Nearly two years to the day that he walked out of juvenile detention as a free man, Nathaniel Abraham was ordered back behind bars for trying to sell Ecstasy out of the trunk of his car. The 22-year-old from Pontiac was charged last year with dealing drugs after undercover officers in his hometown said they caught him selling at a gas station. “I’m not saying I’ll never make a mistake again, given the opportunity. I know I can be a success to the community,” Abraham told Oakland County Circuit Judge Daniel O’Brien during Monday morning’s sentencing hearing. “A mistake is not noticing this step and tripping,” O’Br
