It’s an image that still sickens us seventeen years later – toddler James Bulger being led out of an English shopping centre by two boys with murder on their minds. Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were ten-years-old when they tortured and killed little James. It was a shocking case. Yet after only eight years of so-called “rehabilitation”, they were released – returned to society with shiny new identities and clean slates. One of them has been arrested for another horrible crime raising the question – should they have been let out in the first place?
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