5) In essence regarding the case of re Gault 387 U.S. 1 (1967) a 15 year old boy made some poor decision to make prank phone calls to his neighbor, Mrs. Cook. A complaint was filed and soon after the teenager was arrested. No one informed Gaults parents of the arrest. Gault was on probation at the time these phone calls were made for being present while another boy stole a lady’s purse. The probation officer identified the charge as being a lewd phone call. If this Gault were an adult it would have been an offence that the maximum sentence would have been a fifty dollar fine and two months in jail but communication did not flow both ways. Mrs. Cook was not called to testify and there was no recording or courtroom transcript to substantiate
