Teens that kill

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Earlier this year I met up with someone online that I'd been to school with. One of the topics we discussed (for the first time ever for me) was the children that had ended up behind bars for a number of terrible offences. This was back in the 70's and in a wealthy area.

4 girls in my year spent months terrorizing wealthy elderly people, tying them up and beating them with hammers.

I knew a few of them very well but their lives weren't really that much different than mine and others at the time - secrets, trauma's, confusion.
They were creepy but never would have expected something like that.

I met up with the one of them years later after she had been released from prison. I noticed that she had become a totally different person, all the evil or whatever it was that used to surround her and made her creepy to be around, had gone. In fact we often used to meet up.

Years later I was stunned to discover that one of my ex boyfriends was going out with one of the girls although he had no idea about her background.

Another boy from my class became an armed robber and shot post office staff and went on the run.

A girl that had PTSD nearly killed but luckily something happened at the last moment.

Ages of these 12-15

[BabakinsNo1]

I recently read about Jesse Pomeroy a murderer from the 19th Century (i think), he took great pleasure in torturing boys/girls until he finally killed them, I think all in all he killed 3 children. Now he was supposed to be hanged for his crime, but because he was 14 at the time, there was an uproar and protestors said that he shouldn't be hanged.
Now I don't beleive that he should've been hanged but the alternative for him was to spend the rest of his days in solitary confinement, he ate alone, excercised alone and the only people he seen was the prison guards.
Now I don't know about anyone else but I would rathe be hanged.
He spent all of his adult life in prison til he died at the age of 72 in prison.
I think because it was back "in the olden days" no one sought out to find out why he did it. I think that would be quite interesting.