18th Bithday
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I read a book about the James Bulger case and found it very interesting and informative. Thompson and Venables did not have normal lives, they were latch key kids left to their own devices most of the time and abused by their parents the rest of the time.
It's easy for us to say that we and our children would know right from wrong at 10 years old but those boys had seen and experienced things that others haven't and didn't have normal lives
I'm not excusing what they did and only they know why they did it but surely we have to take their pasts and ages into consideration. I don't think they should have served life in custody although they have had their own life sentences in terms of having to live with their actions and when they have children of their own they will have to live with looking into their child's face and feeling the guilt of the little life that they snuffed out all those years ago. That guilt must be horrendous. That and the constant fear that their identities will be realised in their community.
We have to have faith that they are now rehabilitated and living honest lives.
It's easy for us to say that we and our children would know right from wrong at 10 years old but those boys had seen and experienced things that others haven't and didn't have normal lives
I'm not excusing what they did and only they know why they did it but surely we have to take their pasts and ages into consideration. I don't think they should have served life in custody although they have had their own life sentences in terms of having to live with their actions and when they have children of their own they will have to live with looking into their child's face and feeling the guilt of the little life that they snuffed out all those years ago. That guilt must be horrendous. That and the constant fear that their identities will be realised in their community.
We have to have faith that they are now rehabilitated and living honest lives.
It is easy for us to say that we and our children know right from wrong at age 10, the reason beings is that it’s fact ( unless the 10 year old is mentally impaired ) and that is irrespective of their upbringing. By that age they will have interacted enough with others outside the immediate family to know exactly what is right or wrong.
I think they should still be in custody, receive a damned good thrashing everyday, have some paint poured into their eyes everyday and have a few batteries inserted up their bottoms everyday for good measure.
Hoping that they may have some sense of guilt and that it will affect them in everyday life may give you some sense that justice has been served. Not me.
It was premeditated torture and murder, no more no less.
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cannot agree Lilly, dont matter how yer brought up a 10 yr old knows right and wrong. sometimes i think its easy to make excuses for deprived backgrounds,one of me best mates, his dad was a drunken bully,his mum was not very nice either, suffice to say he was dragged up, latchkey,etc, - never been in trouble in his life, it dont work like that.
'Give me a boy until he is seven, and I will give you the man.'
I have a real struggle to believe that a ten year old doesn't know the difference between right and wrong, whatever their background.
I hope Jamie Bulger's killers are tormented for the rest of their days, for the evil they committed.
I have a real struggle to believe that a ten year old doesn't know the difference between right and wrong, whatever their background.
I hope Jamie Bulger's killers are tormented for the rest of their days, for the evil they committed.
I agree with Lilly on this, though I would not excuse them of the crime, they certainly should not have been put in a prison of any sort.
They will most definitely feel shame if not guilt, and that will never leave them even if people don't realise who they are.
I wonder if they still have contact with eachother?
They will most definitely feel shame if not guilt, and that will never leave them even if people don't realise who they are.
I wonder if they still have contact with eachother?
I find it hard to find emotion for stuff like this, mostly because they're a bit too old to have been in my time, but I have read the law report for this case as I looked at it last year at A level.
When you look at case reports you find it hard to be shocked or show compassion for the people in the cases. It's just completely different to the media. Most likely why I said a long while back that I wouldn't find it difficult to represent someone who is on trial for a serious crime. It's all very objective.
When you look at case reports you find it hard to be shocked or show compassion for the people in the cases. It's just completely different to the media. Most likely why I said a long while back that I wouldn't find it difficult to represent someone who is on trial for a serious crime. It's all very objective.
Yes let's believe in 'leaks'. Why don't we believe in leprechauns as well in the spirit of the upcoming st patricks day.
I do actually believe in leprechauns, fairies, ghosts, aliens, neverland etc.
I said I personally believed in them.
Also, there identities wont be revealed because the people who reveal it WILL be found and they WILL be given a very very serious punishment, all for the sake of them being given new identities and whilst it makes life a bit more harder for them, it doesnt actually help anyone else, it just wastes resources that could be being used to help someone else.
Which is exactly the reason why police aren't held to be negligent very often
