Today's topic is quite intellectually stimulating and engaging.
I will like to draw inferences for my argument or immediate reasoning from religious beliefs or point of view. For instance, from an Islamic point of view, in order to impart understanding about and practicing religious worship in a child, muslim parents are instructed to start educating them from age seven on how to observe five daily prayers. On attaining age ten, they should be rebuked or if necessary punished for refusing to pray or negligence. This points out that at attaining age ten, a child is bestowed with the ability to distinguish between what is right and wrong. He/she consequently becomes responsible for his/her actions.
However, the onus of guiding and leading them aright lies on the parents shoulder and the community/society in which they were brought up.
Conclusively, a child could be adjudged innocent before attaining age ten and should be held responsible for his actions afterwards. The parents, would also have a burden to bear in the sight of the Almighty especially if they failed in discharging their parental duties responsibly