Childhood and reiteration in Bukavu

Re-offending is when a minor who has already been convicted is convicted again. The second conviction may or may not concern the same offence. If the second conviction is for the same offence, it is referred to as a repeat offence. This brings us to another result. According to this result, to speak of reiteration, two conditions must be met: the minor must have been convicted of the first offence, and the second offence must have been committed after the first conviction.We thus arrived at the result that the various cases of children who returned to the Bukavu juvenile court concerned either the same offence as in the first case, or the same offence, attenuated or aggravated.