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Darkbluerabbit:
I was never very interested in humanized dolls, but I did play with plastic horses.  At one point, when I was about 9 years old, I created a story where one of the ponies betrayed the other ponies and was so repentant that she committed suicide by hanging herself from my bedpost.

My twisted plots had nothing to do with Jesus and Judas, as my family was not religious.   I also used to stage death scenes by smashing my grandmother's blackberries onto my chest.  My mother was not happy when it came time to do laundry.

Kids are fuckin' crazy, but they're not evil.  I came up with shit like that at a young age, and I am definitely now a pacifist. 

IronOxide:
Most kids carry out actions that are criminally prosecutable at this age. Have you never heard of a story of kids getting into a fight and breaking an arm/leg? If I'm not mistaken, that's aggravated battery, as is one kid spitting on another in many jurisdictions. Kids don't really mean to hurt people when they come up with these plots, they are just thinking of their own wants.

I am however, not going to deride the prosecutor for his actions, I strongly doubt he wants to lock these kids up in juvie, he wants to teach them a lesson, scare them a bit by bringing them down to the police station. If I'm right about his intentions, he's a pretty smart dude IMO, it can be a rather effective idea, but if I'm wrong and he actually wants to prosecute eight year olds, then he's batshit insane.

will: wanton sex god:

--- Quote from: Verergoca on 02 Apr 2008, 14:17 ---c). ADD/other weirdness does help to break down some of the rationalisations that "normal" people have (i think, i dont have scientific evidence to set next to this statement, someone who is more interested into youths-with-learning-disabilities, help me out here)


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i haven't read through all the posts. so hopefully I'm not being redundant, but up until about two weeks ago I watched three kids, agred 12 11 and 7, all adopted from Russia.  The 12 year old had some severe add and just social problems, to put it generally.  But he went from seeing me as an authority figure and mentor (going so far as to call me the dad he never had) to trying literally to hit me with a hammer punching me, kicking me, spitting in my face, stabbing me with a skipole, among other things.  He oftentimes tied himself up with tape, rope, and handcuffs, and went through all sorts of "hostage" situations.  He had what I feel was a bit of a hero complex, though that Bush was a hero, that all arabs were the bad guys, watched Cops and cheeered them on etc.  He just had a completley skewed sense of reality.  Anyway what I'm getting at is the fact that he was in a normal school, but had ultra violent tendencies.  It's far from impossible for he or any kid (such as the ones in the article) to scheme a plot and get some friends to agree to help (whether or not they wouldve executed the plan is another story.)

Hope that was some okay input!

SeanBateman:
Look I made a really good Gram Parsons/Hank Snow joke in this thread and if I don't get any props for it there will be fucking murders.

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