CJOB: Birth Date

Sudan Dept: Winnipeg radio station CJOB reports the boy, who immigrated from Sudan with his family, was only 17 when he was arrested in 2008. But immigration officials mistakenly registered his birthday as being in March 1990 instead of August, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The teen was charged days before his actual birthday after a group of young men with unloaded BB guns approached a couple on the street and wINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge is considering whether to order a mistrial after a mistaken birth date led to a youth being convicted as an adult for an attempted armed robbery. The man's relatives say they knew about the mistake, but didn't bother to correct it because the difference was only a few months. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.