fbg40 - //Today, two 15 year old "children" were found guilty of murdering a mother and her daughter. //
Why the inverted commas? Horrific though their crimes are, they do not catapult the convicted into adulthood - they are children.
//The male admitted guilt from the start, the girl was found guilty at her trial. Why is it that they cannot be named ? Surely they give up all rights to anonymity when they they commit the crime ! As far as I'm concerned, it should be name and shame.
That rather presupposes that they would be 'shamed' by their identities being revealed - and since neither have even hinted at remorse, that notion looks unlikely to fly.
These are obviously deeply disturbed children who are more than likely going to spend their lives, or a large proportion of them, incarcerated, so the idea that 'shame' is relevant or appropriate does lose traction.
Their anonymity does spare their families the attentions of trolls and media, they obviously have enough to cope with right now.