Should He Be Given A Chance?

[jd_1984]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/james-bulger-20-years-on-1680094

Quite an emotive story in these parts.
Is it time this young man had a chance in society or is his pattern of behaviour too worrying. What should be done with him??

[emmie]

one of the boys has already gone back to prison, for breaking the terms of his release. The piece in the paper the other day about this case was truly heartbreaking. I can't say i would forgive either boy for this vile crime.

[Sqad]

\\\\Should He Be Given A Chance?\\\\

A chance to what? Become a useful member of society OR perhaps to kill again?

I know what I think.

[Smowball]

No sane,normal person could have possibly done what they did. I would never want to see him released.

[tonyav]

Ditto, sqad.

[jd_1984]

A chance to be a member of society again? To intergrate back in and be able to have some form of life on the outside world. He is truly a disturbed individual with mental health issues but should he be punished for his entire life, or one day, released and treated for mental health issues. Should it really be a "throw him away and throw away the key" situation
I am not saying he should by the way...

[emmie]

the two 10 years old who did this had to have something decidedly wrong with them at the time. You can't read the descriptions of what they did to the little boy, without feeling sick. And much of the info has been watered down i suspect in deference to the parents of James Bulger.

[McMouse]

A young boy kills an even younger boy. Grown men kill other grown men in the most shocking circumstances and go free after 15 years. Are they being given a chance?

[EvianBaby]

He had another chance. And that didn't work out all that great did it.

There's no cure for psychopathy.

[Sqad]

\\He is truly a disturbed individual with mental health issues but should he be punished for his entire life, or one day, released and treated for mental health issues\\

mmm! that is the bottom line.

But can't one treat his "mental health issues" in prison\hospital.
Much safer i would suggest.

I for one would not appreciate being put into the position of deciding.....damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[jd_1984]

Some will say he has an illness, others that he is pure evil.
I am just wondering how people outside Liverpool feel as most round here would see him thrown away for life as it is a subject that "scousers" feel intensely strong about

[Graham-W]

He had a second chance when he got parole two years ago. He blew it then and there's no reason he wouldn't blow it again.
How many second chances do you give someone?
As to being punished by being in prison, that's where he will get the best treatment for the mental disorder he most obviously has.

[jd_1984]

It was downloading pornographic images of children after his release.
This shows a wide and deep psychological disorder, a disorder he has had all his life. But do we punish him or treat him, in hospital or in prison??

[MadMen]

I'm not even going to open the link. I read the father's story in last weeks paper, and it was (as someone's said above) heartbreaking.
Something that stuck in my mind was the detective who questioned one of them. He said he hadn't looked for the 666 on the back of his head, but he knew he was dealing with the devil!

I don't think it matters where you live, jd. I The feelings towards these monsters are the same, up and down the country.
Neither of them deserve any kind of "chance". They should still be locked up. Not in a mental health institute, but in prison.

[EvianBaby]

You attempt to treat him. Attempt being the operative word. In a secure unit where he is not a danger to others.

Of course I only know what the media tells me but I'll stick my neck out and say he is a psychopath. Having read up a lot on the subject of such people, there is no good to be had from releasing him. It's pretty much asking for it.

[Everhelpful]

Put simply: A definite NO.

[Sqad]

jd...well IF and i say IF the diagnosis is of Psychopathy .........the i am afraid that there is no known cure.........

Mental disorders are not my "thing though."..;-)

[Smowball]

Venables also posed online as a woman of 35 pretending to have an eight-year-old daughter to rent to ­paedophiles and had sex with a guard at the secure unit where he was held as a child.

[missnemesis]

A chance at what jd, killing someone else's child?

He has proven that whatever treatment he has already received hasn't worked so what is the point in it's continuation? I'd stick him in solitary, feed him through a catflap and leave him to rot.

[Graham-W]

jd-1984
That's what I was saying. Prison isn't supposed to be a punishment, but an opportunity for rehabilitation. Whether it's a prison or a psychiatric ward he must have been receiving treatment. Two years ago it was shown the treatment, so far, has failed to work. He will continue to receive treatment but how you can judge whether the treatment has worked I don't know. Is it worth taking the chance yet again.

[Baldric]

///Should He Be Given A Chance?///
He was, and he blew it with the child-porn!
A secure hospital would seem to be the way to go.
I don't think there is any way he should be released and treated for his sickness in the public domain, far too risky imo.