we had this as a debating topic at school when i was about 12
as that was when it happened. someone in the class suggested putting signs around their necks saying "i killed jamie bulger" and sending them into the middle of liverpool...

i do remember the comment of denise bulger: "i knew where my little boy was all the time. why didn't their parents? if they had, it wouldn't have happened."
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 16:43, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

She knew he was alone in a shopping centre being abducted?
That's some pretty high class neglect, right there.
( Kroney, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 16:45, Reply)

i know
shame your mother took better care, eh?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 16:49, Reply)

My mother has always blamed the woman that stopped them and asked them if he was alright
and they said "They found him" Any grown adult should have said "I'll take him to the police station" or something not just let two ten year olds take him off
( Peej, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 16:45, Reply)

they were 10 years old
they knew full well what they were doing was Wrong. my 18 month old niece knows it's wrong when she hits her older brother and sister with a toy, ffs! it's not like they were being asked to debate criminal jurisprudence, but they certainly knew that hurting and killing a younger boy was an evil and a wicked thing to do.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 16:47, Reply)

Oh yes totally agree
But I still think that the mother could have prevented it by knowing where her kid was and this woman could have prevented it by taking them to the police. I also think the death penalty for two 10 year old boys is too much in an apparently progressive society.
( Peej, Thu 4 Aug 2011, 16:49, Reply)