Or maybe they're just bad seeds. Ten and Eleven year olds are quite capable of knowing that sodomizing five year olds is WRONG. They are capable of making that choice. I am tired of the cult of victimology.
I have a former client who is slated for death by lethal injection in January. He is/was not a victim. The three helpless people he murdered were the victims.
Refreshing comment from a lawyer!
I am sorry, but I don't fall into the thinking line of holding children responsible as adults when they commit a crime. Especially not 10 and 11 year old children. I also do not believe that long term juvenile incarceration is the answer for a child this young either. The mentality here seems to be "hang them" whenever a child does wrong and I cannot go along with that. A 10 or 11 year old child does not function as an adult ( mentally or socially ).
I also do not believe that children are born as "bad seeds". I may be a minority with this opinion but nevertheless it is my opinion. I have a child that is 11 years old and one getting ready to be 10. I can't imagine one of them thinking of doing something so awful nor can I fathom them ever being "locked away" for a long time. When an adult commits a crime ( like this or any other ) they do so knowing that they are forfeiting their life to the prison system. They do so knowing that they are breaking the law. I do not belive that a child does so with this understanding.