[RicocheT]

I don't think the focus on this sad incident should be the race of the perps/victim. I do think our society is in serious trouble when an 8-year-old girl and a 12-year-old girl get to the point they go and stab a 5 year-old. How is it they are so destructive or lack understanding of what a serious harm they are doing? Why didn't those that raised and educated them put a spark of compassion into these girls?

[aristeides]

If the attack was racially motivated (as it probably was,) then of course that is a key part of the story, and should be reported.

By the way, those two creeps who killed, cut up, and dumped in the garbage that couple on the Maryland shore over the Memorial Day weekend were both black, and their victims were both white. Again, something the papers are not reporting.

[Cap'n Crunch]

It's a sad situation isn't it? I believe it's because we live in a culture of death.

[Richard Kimball]

How is it they are so destructive or lack understanding of what a serious harm they are doing? Why didn't those that raised and educated them put a spark of compassion into these girls?

Excellent observations. Two points to make: First, despite all the "it's for the children" rhetoric, society, through all media, make it obvious that raising children is the least important thing in the world. Second, many children today aren't raised. They're left to grow like weeds.

There are a lot of idiotic homilies out there, like "given an opportunity, children will make the right choice." Nobody ever had to teach a kid to push another kid down and take his toy, or to try and steal a candy bar from the corner store. You have to teach them NOT to do that. Unfortunately, when this generation of children is grown, I think we'll be past the point of no return. Third World, here we come.