[Bonnyboy]

Originally Posted by Lilly

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 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.