AIBU to think that if you commit an adult crime you shouldn't receive anonymity

[Ohbehave1]

After hearing that both of the children involved in the murder of a mother and daughter have been found guilty I think that they if they were adult enough murder someone, and then go and watch films and have sex after that they should be old enough to be named after.

Their crimes were particularly nasty, and as such they should live with the consequences for the rest of their lives. They certainly shouldn't be able to do a few years and then get out with anonymity and start their lives as if nothing ever happened.

[kimlo]

why have they been granted anonymity when other children haven't?

[Amelie10]

Yanbu these rotten things should be locked up for good, never mind given anonymity.

[Soubriquet]

No they shouldn't be given anonymity but the law is the law

I did start a thread asking in this day and age it's possible. Most people around here (we live in the same town) know who they are and others have proved a quick Google is all it takes to find it out anyway

[MoreCoffeeNow]

There is the possibility it's to protect members of their families.

[Aquasport]

Agree with more, I suspect it is because family involved and to protect their identity, nothing has been reported on the motive which would also support that

[Thisjustinno]

It's to protect the families. And it's very easy to find their names in 5 minutes online.

[FlyingElbows]

Have you stopped, for even a second, to consider how two 14 year old children ended up in that situation in the first place? Daily Mail "hang 'em" frothing is much much easier isn't it? What good is naming them going to do? You realise there are more than likely two very vulnerable families with God knows what kind of chaos going on behind them? Other children? Other people who need to be protected from the mob "justice" that naming these kids would inevitably bring.

They're clearly both massively damaged and they very much will live with the consequences for the rest of whatever you can call a "life" that they might have. What they did was shockingly abhorrent but throwing them and their families to the torch welding locals will do nothing for anyone.

[Ohbehave1]

Flying Elbows. I understand that totally but these monsters will be out and about with no care about what they have done.

And the families in 95% of cases should be taking some of the blame. How the hell do 2 14 year olds get to a situation where they can murder 2 people, watch films, have sex and carry on like nothing had happened.

[Cherryskypie]

It's impossible to explain why they've been granted anonymity without breaching that anonymity.

[Soubriquet]

Yes Cherry

[PikachuSayBoo]

Everyone locally knows who they are.

[Soubriquet]

Yep. And why they did it

[happymumof4crazykids]

It was reported at the time of the murder who they were. Maybe they are both sociopaths or mentally unstable and instead of giving them the 'glory' of being known for what they did its better to deny them this?

[BarbarianMum]

Why do you feel the need to know their names? Would it help you judge them better, or is it just for a personal thrill? Or are you planning on popping along to their relatives and having a word?

[HarleyQuinzel]

First you say they are old enough to know what they did, then you say the family's to blame?!

[MumOnTheRunCatchingUp]

Op... in 95% of cases ? Can you link to that?

[gettingitwrongputtingitright]

Can someone link to the case please?

[Hippywannabe]

Soubriquet-why did they do it?
The other thread enabled identification within seconds so I think anonymity is gone.

[Cherryskypie]

You are breaking the law if you identify them.

[gettingitwrongputtingitright]

Just found link on the other thread. sick.

[sashh]

why have they been granted anonymity when other children haven't?

Probably because of the Thompson and Venables situation. The actual killers were safe in a secure children's home, their families have had to move numerous times.

You can say the parents are to blame for the way their children were brought up but younger siblings were not, they have had their education interrupted numerous times.

Then when the killers were released they had to be given new identities, I believe more than once.

All the moving of families, false ID etc etc has cost us, as tax payers, a fortune and for what?

Just so that we could stare at the pictures of two 10 year olds who did a dreadful thing?

James Bulger's family certainly had a right to know who they were/are but did everyone?

I don't think I gained anything from the names being released, does anyone think they did?

[FlyHighLittleBee]

Yep. And why they did it

I know who the two were, but I was under the impression it was not known why they did it.

[Soubriquet]

Can't say why as it breeches their anonyminity

[Inyournightdress]

It is not in the publics interest to know the names of these children. The faux outrage is like some kind of murder porn. It is as if people want a medal for how disgusted they feel because then they can prove they are so far detached from these murderers and that what happened is so alien to themselves.

Whenever these cases make the news all I can think is society has failed another family.