\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 12-year-old boy accused of murder in New Mexico has been transferred to a juvenile treatment facility in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, following a decision by prosecutors. Boy accused in the death of 63-year-old Scott HabermehlThe boy is accused in the 2024 death of 63-year-old Scott Habermehl in Albuquerque. Police said the boy and others intentionally ran over Habermehl while he was riding his bike to work. Defense attorneys argued that the child should have been placed in treatment sooner instead of being held in detention. “The most important thing at this point for us was that he continued to receive treatment and be treated like a child who at some point is going to be out in the community,” defense attorneys said. “Months and months in detention rather than in a juvenile treatment facility.” Prosecutors said the case will continue even as the boy receives treatment.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tWESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
A 12-year-old boy accused of murder in New Mexico has been transferred to a juvenile treatment facility in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, following a decision by prosecutors. <\/p>\n
Boy accused in the death of 63-year-old Scott Habermehl<\/p>\n
The boy is accused in the 2024 death of 63-year-old Scott Habermehl in Albuquerque. Police said the boy and others intentionally ran over Habermehl while he was riding his bike to work. <\/p>\n
Defense attorneys argued that the child should have been placed in treatment sooner instead of being held in detention. <\/p>\n
“The most important thing at this point for us was that he continued to receive treatment and be treated like a child who at some point is going to be out in the community,” defense attorneys said. “Months and months in detention rather than in a juvenile treatment facility.” <\/p>\n
Prosecutors said the case will continue even as the boy receives treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old boy accused of murder in New Mexico has been transferred to a juvenile treatment facility in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10087,82936,82940,82941,72285,5855,111,82937,15649,82938,15613,32623,82939,13187,13338,28,30,29,11647,1401,5910],"class_list":["post-185763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-12-year-old-boy","tag-12-year-old-boy-accused-of-murder","tag-12-year-old-murder","tag-63-year-old-scott-habermehl","tag-albuquerque","tag-child","tag-death","tag-death-of-63-year-old-scott-habermehl","tag-decision","tag-decision-by-prosecutors","tag-defense-attorney","tag-detention","tag-juvenile-treatment-facility","tag-month","tag-new-mexico","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-point","tag-prosecutor","tag-westmoreland-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}