Comments on: Aftercare http://www.peterrisdon.com/blog/2010/07/23/aftercare/?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Weblog Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:00:33 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Formertory http://www.peterrisdon.com/blog/2010/07/23/aftercare/comment-page-1/#comment-733 Formertory Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:05:47 +0000 http://www.peterrisdon.com/blog/?p=3043#comment-733 The article URL, which didn't come though, is: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7365479/Jon-Venables-is-no-longer-the-guilty-boy-who-killed-James-Bulger.html The article URL, which didn’t come though, is:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7365479/Jon-Venables-is-no-longer-the-guilty-boy-who-killed-James-Bulger.html

]]> By: Formertory http://www.peterrisdon.com/blog/2010/07/23/aftercare/comment-page-1/#comment-732 Formertory Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:07:36 +0000 http://www.peterrisdon.com/blog/?p=3043#comment-732 <a>This article</a>, published earlier this year, makes some powerful points about the way Venables and Thompson were treated in an adult court. Without condoning in any way what they did, if those two boys weren't half-insane or sociopathic before they entered the dock, I'm damn sure they were afterwards. If the article is accurate, it would have been difficult to calculate a crueler means of dealing with them, or one which would more guarantee the need for long-term supervision. If justice is partly about salvaging something positive from the appalling, it failed here. This article, published earlier this year, makes some powerful points about the way Venables and Thompson were treated in an adult court.

Without condoning in any way what they did, if those two boys weren’t half-insane or sociopathic before they entered the dock, I’m damn sure they were afterwards. If the article is accurate, it would have been difficult to calculate a crueler means of dealing with them, or one which would more guarantee the need for long-term supervision.

If justice is partly about salvaging something positive from the appalling, it failed here.

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