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🗓️ 7 April 2023
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0:00.0 | Hey, dessert listeners. It's just me today. I thought I would answer some |
0:04.3 | up-a-tier patron emails. Let's get to this first one. Anonymous annual |
0:08.8 | up-a-tier patron asks, |
0:11.0 | children who kill other children, do they know that it is wrong? |
0:15.9 | Are you familiar with the James Bulger case? It was huge here in the UK. |
0:21.6 | These two 10-year-old boys had befriended a toddler at a shopping center |
0:25.7 | and then tortured and murdered him. They were then held in a young offender's |
0:30.4 | institute until the age of 18 and were given new identities upon release. |
0:35.2 | Just check me in here. Yeah, I've read about this case in journal articles |
0:40.1 | actually. I didn't know about it. Outside of that, for some reason, it didn't |
0:45.2 | reach my sphere when I was 22 in 1993. |
0:52.0 | But yeah, it happened in 1993. It was a two-year-old boy James Bulger |
0:58.1 | was tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys. |
1:02.6 | There was a huge media circus from what I understand and a national panic |
1:06.6 | as I've heard it described and an outcry to punish |
1:12.4 | the two 10-year-old boys in a severe way. |
1:17.0 | And there was a lot of talk about how old one can be to be held responsible for this sort of, |
1:24.7 | you know, the bottom line is just a horrific murder, horrific death of a two-year-old boy. |
1:30.4 | And you know, it's just completely tragic going on with your email. |
1:37.3 | Within the literature, does anything point towards children's inability to |
1:41.0 | understand how inhumane and wrong these actions are? |
1:45.4 | Just chime in here. Yeah, there's a lot of literature. |
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