/////This isn't a second chance Josepp - they were children, and the mark of any civilised society is that it doesn't kill ten-year-old kids, or even punish them as adults.////

I know you feel that way. What I'm trying to get out of you is a credible reason. WHY shouldn't we "punish" them as adults???

Tell me this: Do you believe that the "punishment" they received was adequate?