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Thread #137308 Message #3144118
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
28-Apr-11 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bulger, Thompson, Venables
Subject: RE: BS: Bulger, Thompson, Venables
"And I see not a glimmer of sympathy from you for the families of Venables or Taylor - or a glimmer of understanding - beyond them being two monsters."
I have never called them 'monsters'...but what they did was inhuman.
Those families still have their sons. It is a very different thing.
They also didn't care much for their boys when they were smaller, pretty much left them to bring themselves up, in very dysfunctional families. Some kids who come from tough backgrounds go on to cause trouble, desperate to get some kind of attention...but this crime was sadistic. It was so far removed from breaking windows, stealing, being a bloody nuisance etc...
"How dare you suggest I have no sympathy for the families of all concerned?"
Good to hear that you obviously have. Sometimes, folks can become too focussed on those who committed the crime, rather than those who were the victim, that's all.