There's plenty psychos released on parole.

 

And there's the psychos yet to get caught which is more scary.

He wont be out for long. He is one of the 'wrong' ones. Maybe he just can't help it, in which case he should be in an institution.

About six feet underground 

 

I cannot see the sense it letting this guy out. What makes it even worse is that last time he was out he was caught with indecent images of children!!!

 

Authorities "GET A GRIP" this guy should not be out. EVER.

I'm just gonna say this and back out as I know it's a sensitive issue and my thoughts on it aren't 'mainstream' but ...............does anyone actually think that at 10 years old he should have been locked up for life and the key thrown away? He was actually out for 10 years without harming/murdering another child/person. He was living under the pressure of having to live under a false identity for the rest of his life and got very little support. Bear in mind his formative years were spent locked up in a secure unit - to be released aged 18/19 into a world that you'd been incarcerated from must have been 'difficult' to say the least.

 

The boys should never have been named - it served no purpose.

 

I'm never quite sure why people get so emotive over the Bulger killers as opposed to any other despicable child killers. I think it's the fact that they were children - does that make them worse than adult child murderers?

 

Like you Xochi I had nightmares about the case - it was shocking and distressing and will stay in all of our minds forever probably. What made it so shocking was that it was carried out by two children. I don't believe anyone is 'born evil' - what also broke my heart at the time (my kids were of a similar age to Thompson and Venables) was how two kids could be so damaged/disturbed to do something like that. 

 

I'm not a bleeding heart liberal or whatever people call them - I just think this was an horrendous crime on many levels.

 

I have to agree with you Soozy, children being brutally murdered is horrendous enough..... the fact it was other children doing the killing makes it not only shocking but also very very sad.

I tend to agree with all of your points, particularly the circumstances of the original trial. I'm quite interested that we know so much about this case with spokesman appearing all over, but every time the Lawrence case, with reference to the friendship between high class criminals and the police, comes up, everyone is suddenly very quiet.

I agree with what you've said Soozy in particular about what makes two children so damaged/disturbed to kill another child in the manner they did 

 

I do still think that 8 years was too short a sentence and that they should have served some time in an adult prison.  As for Venebles recent conviction, it would appear that he has paedophilic tendencies and as we know even with counselling or indeed chemical castration, these feelings do not go away so it is inevitable he will be unable to resist these urges and will ultimately come to the attention of the authorities again.  Possessing these images which is bad in itself will always be seen as less of an offence as someone who acts on these urges to harm/abuse a child.

 

I really hope he never harms another child again 

He chose to download and enjoys looking at images of child pornography.

Before that he murdered a child ... in horrific circumstances.

 

Ignore everything else . . . should he be released?

Of course you can be born wrong, people born with low activity of the frontal cortex are known to be sociopaths it also puts a halt on another part of the brain called the amygdala which controls eating..sex..rage..violence..drinking..the brain can be damaged in the womb or at birth so yes you can be born *evil* as you put it....the brain is a very complex part of our bodies and lives....

If people can be born natural athletes or gifted painters.

Why not evil?