The soft penalty handed to a couple of teenagers from Maryland for severely beating a totally innocent person on the streets of Washington should provide the nation with an opportunity to re-evaluate juvenile justice.

The 15-year-olds — a boy and a girl — were part of a gang who were trying to hijack a car when 19-year-old Edward Coristine intervened. He was beaten bloody.

The two teenagers, who are too precious to be named because of their age, were arrested, and then were allowed to plead guilty and handed the lightest of punishments by a Washington judge.

The boy pleaded to attempted robbery and simple assault and to felony assault and robbery at a nearby gas station moments before the assault on Mr. Coristine and was sentenced to 12 months probation, the girl received a nine-month t

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