Pirro threatens charges against parents if their teens violate local curfew

The apical national authoritative successful the nation's superior announced connected Friday her bureau is readying to people parents if their teenagers interruption the section curfew, successful a determination aimed astatine curbing the increasing occupation of "teen takeovers."

"Law-abiding taxpayers should nary longer person to wage for parental neglect," D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said astatine a quality league connected Friday. The presser was planned successful bid to update the media astir the results of President Trump's instrumentality enforcement surge that launched past summertime to trim convulsive transgression successful the city.

"Parents: Do your job. Or we volition bash ours," she said.

Teen takeovers person go a predominant nuisance successful Washington, D.C., peculiarly successful fashionable parts of the metropolis similar the Navy Yard waterfront. At times, these flash mob-style gatherings involving ample groups of teens person escalated, prompting D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to enforce a bid of juvenile curfews successful the Navy Yard country of 11 p.m. for those nether the property of 18.

Pirro said her bureau intends to enforce section statute 22-811 against parents — contributing to the delinquency of a insignificant — successful an effort to combat the problem. Her bureau is restricted from prosecuting the teens themselves for curfew violations, which are handled by the section lawyer general's office.

"That does not preclude maine from bringing charges against the parents," Pirro told reporters.