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A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer? “Science doesn’t support prosecution of second graders,” one lawyer said. Still, in New York, children as young as 7 can be charged with a crime. An arrest of a child shook tiny Brasher Falls, a hamlet near the Canadian border, and may have restarted a push in the Legislature to change New York’s law.Credit.Malik Rainey for The New York Times June 3, 2021Updated 9:43 a.m. ET At the forested edge of the Canadian border this spring, state police arrested a person from the hamlet of Brasher Falls, N.Y., population about 1,000. He was charged with rape. ....