"I'm quite happy to let them get on with the job without interference from me, as I know they know a lot more about the subject than I do."
Sounds like good sense to me.
Threads like this always bring out of the woodwork those ready to incite mob rule to drag the prisoners out of the jailhouse and string them up to the nearest tree.
Whatever these children did, the law says they have to be dealt with according to their age; the alternative being to place our legal system in the hands of the scabloid press and its adherents.
Jim Carroll