Children aged ten and over can differentiate between bad behaviour and serious wrongdoing, that fact has been proven. They also know what pain feels like and Thompson and Venables knew just how much they were hurting poor little James.
The age of criminal responsibility in England is one the lowest in Europe.

There are millions of people that have been abused .mistreated molested etc etc that do not perpetrate the same on another human being. Sorry to rain on your parade of luvviedom but evil does not begat evil.


When Venables was 17, he has having full sex up to three times a week with a female guard whilst still in prison. The guard was never prosecuted. The government tried to cover up the innocent. So they even threw in a female guard prepared shag the little bastard for good measure. Again the government tried to cover up that the two bastards went on an unsupervised 'lads' trip' to Europe while on parole. Yes, let them check out the kids in Europe.


Currently law is no deterrent. Foe examplr, recently in West Croydon, a teenage girl who launched a racially motivated attack that saw a seven-month-old baby thrown into a bus lane avoid jail. The 15-year-old was instead sent on an anger management course. She was just convicted of causing actual bodily harm to the baby, not attempted murder. The baby's family have since returned home to Mauritius to escape the devastation the attack had caused on their lives.