--- colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not from what i understood. I knew they had taken
> him away from mall and near to
> rail line where they hurled stones at him till he
> died. I think the rest is
> speculation. It cetrianly didn;'t appear that way on
> the police interview tapes
> which have been braodcast here in a program about
> the boys.
>
> Whatever, the point I was making about these 2 boys
> and the boy in your country
> who shot his teacher, is that they are children and
> as such should be treated as
> such. Had any of these crimes been committted by
> adults, thenyes, I quite agree
> they should not be free again.
Somehow I don't see the case of the boy who shot his
teacher in the same light as the two boys who killed
the toddler. Without knowing all the facts of either
case, it seems to me the 14-yr old was acting out of
rage and/or confusion - it sounds more like a crime of
passion to me. when it comes to crimes of passion, I
think I can understand these a bit more than the
premeditated (?) murder of someone these kids didn't
even know. The crime of passion scares the crap out
of me, because I think "I could do something like
that."
So locking this kid away for 28 yrs without chance of
parole is extremely harsh IMO. Maybe he did live a
rough life, maybe he's a lot more disturbed than he
seems to be, and he needs a lot of help, but I can't
see prison providing this for him. And I'm quite
sure, if he were a white kid, it wouldn't have ended
like this.
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