"Parents still allow their children to watch dreadful things, queueing up to buy them the latest violent game, often way beyond their age limit."

Lizzie did you read that piece on the picture? Did you notice the large naked breasts on the knife wielding monster in the drawing which was entitled "My Dad's House"? Did you notice the fact that Venebles had been subject to violence from his Mother - who going on his illustration of her, presumably liked to assault her son naked. I expect she got off on it, can you imagine your naked mother or father beating you to crap every day as a little girl? I wonder how old he was when that started, two maybe - maybe the age of Bulger, or younger? Who knows. But that's obviously what caused his brain to screw up. Serious physical, sexual and psychological abuse (not silly videos, though I don't think they are a positive influence) creates seriously disturbed children. Children who are abused that way, by their parents, learn that that is normal. Most of those who then go on to become abusers, do so at at older age, by which time they have matured and hopefully had other learning experiences. I don't believe Venebles knew right from wrong, he'd been repeatedly taught that wrong was right by his abusive mother, I don't believe that he was any more innately evil than you are. Nor was he innately any more good, you mention your loving father a lot, you were fortunate and learned those things you needed to learn from people who loved you. So did most of us. Venebles didn't and little Jamie Bulger got tragically caught up in a much bigger picture of ongoing abuse being perpetrated by people who should have been loving mummy and daddy, but who weren't.
Could Venebles ever be rehabilitated? Perhaps. People can go through very shocking things, and do so.

But I don't believe it was ever going to be a likelihood in our system.