Ten Incredible Murder Stories From the World's Most Violent Children. Such violence is unpredictable for the victim, parents, police, judges. Can this little monster be called a child after what he did?
1. Mary Bell
Is the Great Outlaw Girl in 1968 UK. The girl became famous for the murder of her two younger brothers.
Mary was the first child in the family, her mother gave birth to her at the age of 17. The child was not wanted shortly before the birth, the mother tried to poison herself, the doctors managed to save her. Four years later, she did the same with her daughter. Having many mental disorders, the mother could not raise her children normally. She never sat down to dine with her family unless her plate of food was placed in the corner of the room. The father pretended to be an uncle so that the family would receive benefits.
From childhood, Mary Bell was distinguished by a special mindset and ingenuity, having a violent imagination, she was a dreamer. She told stories about her "uncle's" farm and her personal black stallion. She believed that in the future she would become a nun and constantly read bibles (she had about five of them). She never let her relatives or other children near her, except for her 13-year-old neighbor Norma. Girls united difficult life in the worst part of the city.
2. John Venables and Robert Thompson
In 1993, 10-year-old John and his buddy Robert took 2-year-old James Bulger by force outside a shopping mall. The mother decided to punish the baby in this way and did not take him to the store with her. When she returned, the child was gone.
Surveillance cameras recorded how two guys forcibly took James away. What happened next shocked everyone. John and Robert brought the child to railway, doused with paint, beaten, raped and left to die on the rails, so that the train would run over him and everyone would think it was an accident.
3. Alice Bustamant
Elizabeth Olten was only 9 in 2009 when 14-year-old Alice Bustamant killed her. She considered herself a kind of "informal", like goths or emo. It was fearless, sharp and a little wild. Having two younger brothers, Bustaman constantly mocked them, playing fictitious cruel games.
The girl was ruled by pure interest. “What does the criminal feel when he kills?” - it was to this question that Alice received the answer, beating a little girl, strangling her and at the end cutting her throat.
Two months later, the girl confessed where she buried Elizabeth's corpse. All this time, volunteers combed the forest, but their efforts were in vain.
4. George Junius Stinney Jr.
14-year-old George was sentenced to death for the murder of two little girls.
Stinney admitted that he wanted to make love to the older girl, but she refused. Then he switched to a more brutal method, but his nine-year-old girlfriend still stood in his way. Both victims long time resisted and George got tired of fighting. Then he took a large iron rod and beat the girls to death with it, repeatedly hitting them on the head with an iron object.
He was charged with first-degree murder the next day. locals rebelled and the young man was transported to Colombia, where he was sentenced to death penalty in the same year.
5. Bari Loukatis
In 1996, Bari, dressed in the best cowboy clothes of the Wild West, went into the algebra room, Washington. Of course, classmates did not take this outfit in the best way and began to make fun of the guy, calling him stupid. At that moment, they did not suspect that a rifle, a pistol and 78 rounds of ammunition were hidden under the clothes.
In a fraction of a second, Bari opened fire directly on his classmates. The first to die was 14-year-old Manuel Vela, followed by a classmate who was shot in the chest. More than 20 students were wounded and two were killed. But the guy made a mistake, allowing people to collect the wounded, and the enraged teacher snatched the weapon from Lukatis's hands, ending the fun.
6. Kipland Kinkel
Kipland Kinkel was expelled from Oregon State High School in 1998 at the "vulnerable" age of fifteen, due to a gun he brought to class to show off. Instead of contacting law enforcement The guy was just sent home.
He returned, but this time he took a rifle with him, sneaking into the school cafeteria opened fire. One student died immediately after the first shots, another died a few minutes later, 8 people were injured. As a result of panic and stampede, a fire started, which injured another 10 students. When the police arrived, Kinkel was disarmed and taken into custody, but they underestimated the level of intelligence of the boy who concealed the knife. Luckily for the police, he wasn't as good with a blade as he was with a rifle. Kipland claimed he wanted to commit suicide.
When the task force broke into the criminal's house, they found the dead father and mother. There were traps throughout the house. explosive. To make the scene even more horrifying, he booby-trapped the mother's body.
7. Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf
While Cyndi Lauper was playing in every home on the radio in 1983, Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf were having fun stealing cars and vandalizing.
On this day, the girls knocked on the door of an elderly woman. The unsuspecting old lady gladly let two 13 and 14 year old girls in for just a nice chat over tea.
They began to communicate with the old woman, playing with her like a cat with a mouse. After they removed all pretense and turned into crazed killers. Shirley grabbed the woman by the neck and held her while Cindy found a butcher's knife in the kitchen and threw it to her. Shirley Wolf plunged a knife into the body and repeated this 28 times while the old woman begged not to kill.
The girls happily confessed what they had done and said they would like to do it again someday.
8. Joshua Phyllis
Joshua turned 14 in 1998 when his 8 year old neighbor went missing. A week later, his mother began to notice a pungent smell from under the bed. What the mother discovered, she never expected to see in life.
It was the missing girl—dead, bloodied, beaten to death. The mother asked what had happened. To which Joshua replied: “I accidentally hit a girl in the eye at a baseball game. She was screaming and I panicked and started hitting my head with a rock.”
But the jury and the judge did not believe in such an excuse, since it is not clear why Joe beat the girl to death and later hid the body.
9. Willy Bosket
When it comes to crime at a young age, Willie is called an anomaly. At the age of only 15, he already had about 2,000 crimes in New York.
He did not know his father all his adult life, he only knew that he was in prison for murder. Willy is proud of such a "heroic" act of his parent.
Previously, the law on the punishment of juvenile delinquents was a little different. Children could not be held responsible for their deeds before the age of 21. Willy knew this very well and understood that nothing threatened him if he killed, stabbed or raped someone.
After the crimes he committed, the laws regarding juveniles were revised. And after the story with Willy Bosket, new law, it read: children are overzealous aggressive behavior who are 13 years of age bear full responsibility for the crimes and will be convicted at the level of an adult.
10. Jesse Pomeroy
Such criminals come from the "old school". In a world of mentally unstable, insane, violent child killers, Jesse is at the forefront.
In 1874, at the age of fourteen, Jesse was arrested for the murder of a 4-year-old boy. But this was not the first act of violence, Pomeroy has spent the last three years bullying and torturing other children. His first arrest was for the sexual abuse of seven young boys when he himself was barely 11 years old. After he killed a ten-year-old girl, completely disfiguring her body. A little later, his mother's body was found near the store. The locals were against the death penalty for such a young guy, so he was sentenced to forty years in solitary confinement.
Everyone knows the expression “children are the flowers of life”, but it does not always justify itself. History knows many examples when very young girls and boys broke the law: they stole, committed minor offenses and showed cruelty. Today we recall the most famous juvenile delinquents who went down in history as cold-blooded killers.
Jessie Pomeroy
Perhaps one of the most brutal child killers is Jesse Pomeroy, nicknamed "Marble Eye". The appearance of the little maniac was specific - a cleft lip and an eyesore. Pomeroy was born in Boston in 1859.
The father beat the boy after stripping him naked. Jessie's aggression as a teenager was directed at children younger age. At age 12, he tied a boy named Payne to a crossbar and beat him unconscious. In 1872, he tortured three more children. Then the police managed to catch a teenager, he was sent to a reform school, where he stayed until 1874.
Jesse Pomeroy almost became the second Jack the Ripper
Shortly after his release, a new scandal erupted: Pomeroy was accused of killing two girls. The body of one victim, Mary Curran, was found in the basement of the house where he lived with his family, another girl was found mutilated and dismembered in a suburb of Boston. Jesse was sentenced to death, but the execution was delayed due to his young age. A little later, the punishment was changed, sentencing Pomeroy to life sentence in solitary confinement. He died in 1932 at the age of 72.
Mary Bell
Charming girl Mary Bell was nicknamed "spawn of the devil" and "monster baby".
She was born in Newcastle in 1957. Mary grew up in a dysfunctional family, her father did not work, and her mother suffered from mental disorders and once tried to poison her daughter with pills. According to other sources, she offered Mary to men when she was only 4 years old. The cruel nature of the girl was revealed early: at the age of 11, she, along with a 13-year-old girlfriend, committed two murders with a break of several months. Little boys aged 3 and 4 were strangled. On the body of one of them, Mary carved her initials.
Pretty girl Mary Bell committed two murders at the age of 11
The court found her guilty of manslaughter and took into account the extenuating circumstance - the doctors diagnosed Mary with a psychopathic deviation. She was released in 1980 and now lives in the UK under a new name and surname.
Arkady Neiland
Public attention was riveted to the “Neiland case” Soviet Union And foreign countries. Neiland was born in Leningrad in 1949 into a simple family. He began to run away from home early, was registered in the children's room of the police. At the age of 12, Neiland's mother handed him over to a boarding school, from where he soon fled.
After another arrest for theft, Neiland decided on a "big deal" - robbery and murder. As he later said in court, he wanted to get money and leave for Sukhumi in order to “start new life". On January 27, Neiland, disguised as a postal worker, entered the apartment where 37-year-old housewife Larisa Kupreeva and her three-year-old son were staying. Neyland hacked to death a woman and a child with an ax, which he had previously stolen from his parents. In the apartment, he found money and a camera, on which he took several pictures of the murdered woman in obscene poses. He hoped to sell these photos later. Neyland decided to cover his tracks, turned on the gas and set fire to the wooden floor, but the firemen managed to put out the fire almost immediately. At the crime scene, he forgot the axe. On January 30, Neiland was detained in Sukhumi.
The USSR court sentenced Neiland to death, although he was 15 years old
He did not deny, confessed to his deed and helped the investigation. He also suggested that “everything will be forgiven” to him as a minor. The trial of Neiland attracted attention not only in the USSR, but also abroad. The teenager was sentenced to death, despite the fact that he was only 15 years old (this measure of punishment could be applied to those who reached 18). The verdict forced the foreign press and the Soviet intelligentsia to talk about the disregard for the law and the oppression of individual freedom in the Union. On August 11, 1964, Neiland was shot.
John Venelbs and Robert Thompson
These 10-year-olds are responsible for the death of a three-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger. The mother left the child unattended in the supermarket, where Venelbs and Thompson noticed him. They took the child away, brutally beat him with an iron rod and stones. After that, the baby was smeared with paint and thrown onto the rails, hoping that they would be able to make everything look like an accident. The crime was solved thanks to the recording from the surveillance camera in the supermarket.
The trial took place in 1993, the boys were sentenced to 10 years in prison, but released early. In March 2010, Venelbs was sent back to prison for parole violations. The whereabouts of the second killer, Thompson, is being kept secret by the British authorities.
Graham Young
Young was a gifted child, very early began to be interested in science. Graham's mother died when he was only three months old, the boy grew up in his aunt's family until his father, who remarried, took him to him. Young was an excellent student and once received a gift from his father - a set of chemicals for experiments. Since then, Graham has been spotted more than once in a strange activity - he rummaged through the garbage in the hope of finding ingredients for poisons. Young experimented on mice and frogs, and then on his school friend. One day, his stepmother found a vial of ready-made poison in his possession and demanded that the dangerous experiments be stopped. Then the boy began to add antimony to her food. Soon the stepmother died, and Graham was detained on suspicion of murder.
It was not possible to prove anything - the woman's body was cremated, it was not possible to conduct an examination. Young continued his experiments, adding poison to the food of his father and a classmate. Soon the relatives began to suspect the boy. The police again detained Graham, who did not unlock for a long time and began to brag about his knowledge and crimes. At the trial, he said that he was aware that he was doing “not very well,” but he could not stop. Young was declared insane and sent for treatment to a psychiatric hospital, where he could secretly do what he loved - making poisons.
Graham Young poisoned his stepmother, aunt, father and school friend
According to some evidence, he could synthesize poison from bay leaf. Soon, one of the hospital patients died of potassium cyanide poisoning, but suspicion did not fall on Young. True, after several cases of serious poisoning among patients and staff were recorded. Young left the clinic at 23. He got a job several times, where he continued his experiments - poured various poisons into the food and drinks of colleagues and bosses. The police arrested Young, he was charged with two murders and sentenced to life in prison. In 1972, at the age of 25, he began serving his term. Young died in 1990 at Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight.
1. Mary Bell
Is the Great Outlaw Girl in 1968 UK. The girl became famous for the murder of her two younger brothers.
Mary was the first child in the family, her mother gave birth to her at the age of 17. The child was not wanted shortly before the birth, the mother tried to poison herself, the doctors managed to save her. Four years later, she did the same with her daughter. Having many mental disorders, the mother could not raise her children normally. She never sat down to dine with her family unless her plate of food was placed in the corner of the room. The father pretended to be an uncle so that the family would receive benefits.
From childhood, Mary Bell was distinguished by a special mindset and ingenuity, having a violent imagination, she was a dreamer. She told stories about her "uncle's" farm and her personal black stallion. She believed that in the future she would become a nun and constantly read bibles (she had about five of them). She never let her relatives or other children near her, except for her 13-year-old neighbor Norma. The girls were united by a difficult life in the worst part of the city.
2. John Venables and Robert Thompson
In 1993, 10-year-old John and his buddy Robert took 2-year-old James Bulger by force outside a shopping mall. The mother decided to punish the baby in this way and did not take him to the store with her. When she returned, the child was gone.
Surveillance cameras recorded how two guys forcibly took James away. What happened next shocked everyone. John and Robert took the child to the railroad, splashed paint, beaten, raped and left him to die on the tracks, so that the train would run over him and everyone would think it was an accident.
3. Alice Bustamant
Elizabeth Olten was only 9 in 2009 when 14-year-old Alice Bustamant killed her. She considered herself a kind of "informal", like goths or emo. It was fearless, sharp and a little wild. Having two younger brothers, Bustaman constantly mocked them, playing fictitious cruel games.
The girl was ruled by pure interest. “What does the criminal feel when he kills?” - it was to this question that Alice received the answer, beating a little girl, strangling her and at the end cutting her throat.
Two months later, the girl confessed where she buried Elizabeth's corpse. All this time, volunteers combed the forest, but their efforts were in vain.
4. George Junius Stinney Jr.
14-year-old George was sentenced to death for the murder of two little girls.
Stinney admitted that he wanted to make love to the older girl, but she refused. Then he switched to a more brutal method, but his nine-year-old girlfriend still stood in his way. Both victims resisted for a long time and George was tired of fighting. Then he took a large iron rod and beat the girls to death with it, repeatedly hitting them on the head with an iron object.
He was charged with first-degree murder the next day. Local residents rebelled and the young man was transported to Colombia, where he was sentenced to death in the same year.
5. Bari Loukatis
In 1996, Bari, dressed in the best cowboy clothes of the Wild West, went into the algebra room, Washington. Of course, classmates did not take this outfit in the best way and began to make fun of the guy, calling him stupid. At that moment, they did not suspect that a rifle, a pistol and 78 rounds of ammunition were hidden under the clothes.
In a fraction of a second, Bari opened fire directly on his classmates. The first to die was 14-year-old Manuel Vela, followed by a classmate who was shot in the chest. More than 20 students were wounded and two were killed. But the guy made a mistake, allowing people to collect the wounded, and the enraged teacher snatched the weapon from Lukatis's hands.
6. Kipland Kinkel
Kipland Kinkel was expelled from Oregon State High School in 1998 at the "vulnerable" age of fifteen, due to a gun he brought to class to show off. Instead of contacting law enforcement agencies, the guy was simply sent home.
He returned, but this time he took a rifle with him, sneaking into the school cafeteria opened fire. One student died immediately after the first shots, another died a few minutes later, 8 people were injured. As a result of panic and stampede, a fire started, which injured another 10 students. When the police arrived, Kinkel was disarmed and taken into custody, but they underestimated the level of intelligence of the boy who concealed the knife. Luckily for the police, he wasn't as good with a blade as he was with a rifle. Kipland claimed he wanted to commit suicide.
When the task force broke into the criminal's house, they found the dead father and mother. There were explosive traps throughout the house. To make the scene even more horrifying, he booby-trapped the mother's body.
7. Cindy Collier and Shirley Volk
While Cyndi Lauper was playing in every home on the radio in 1983, Cindy Collier and Shirley Wolf were having fun stealing cars and vandalizing.
On this day, the girls knocked on the door of an elderly woman. The unsuspecting old lady gladly let two 13 and 14 year old girls in for just a nice chat over tea.
They began to communicate with the old woman, playing with her like a cat with a mouse. After they removed all pretense and turned into crazed killers. Shirley grabbed the woman by the neck and held her while Cindy found a butcher's knife in the kitchen and threw it to her. Shirley Wolf plunged a knife into the body and repeated this 28 times while the old woman begged not to kill.
The girls happily confessed what they had done and said they would like to do it again someday.
8. Joshua Phyllis
Joshua turned 14 in 1998 when his 8 year old neighbor went missing. A week later, his mother began to notice a pungent smell from under the bed. What the mother discovered, she never expected to see in life.
It was the missing girl—dead, bloodied, beaten to death. The mother asked what had happened. To which Joshua replied: “I accidentally hit a girl in the eye at a baseball game. She was screaming and I panicked and started hitting my head with a rock.”
But the jury and the judge did not believe in such an excuse, since it is not clear why Joe beat the girl to death and later hid the body.
9. Willy Bosket
When it comes to crime at a young age, Willie is called an anomaly. At the age of only 15, he already had about 2,000 crimes in New York.
He did not know his father all his adult life, he only knew that he was in prison for murder. Willy is proud of such a "heroic" act of his parent.
Previously, the law on the punishment of juvenile delinquents was a little different. Children could not be held responsible for their deeds before the age of 21. Willy knew this very well and understood that nothing threatened him if he killed, stabbed or raped someone.
After the crimes he committed, the laws regarding juveniles were revised. And after the story with Willy Bosket, a new law came into force, it said: children of excessively aggressive behavior who are 13 years old are fully responsible for the crimes and will be convicted at the level with an adult.
10. Jesse Pomeroy
Such criminals come from the "old school". In a world of mentally unstable, insane, violent child killers, Jesse is at the forefront.
In 1874, at the age of fourteen, Jesse was arrested for the murder of a 4-year-old boy. But this was not the first act of violence, Pomeroy has spent the last three years bullying and torturing other children. His first arrest was for the sexual abuse of seven young boys when he himself was barely 11 years old. After he killed a ten-year-old girl, completely disfiguring her body. A little later, his mother's body was found near the store. The locals were against the death penalty for such a young guy, so he was sentenced to forty years in solitary confinement.
They say that a big maniac most often grows out of a small one. It is possible that some juvenile delinquents simply lacked parental attention, while others initially perceived their terrible antics as a game. One way or another, but the people who will be discussed later were included in the list of "The youngest criminals."
5. Craig Price
In September 1989, Joan Hilton (aged 39) and her two daughters, eight and ten years old, were found murdered in their own home. The victims were killed very brutally: the mother received 60 and the girls - 30 each.
Finding the killer was easy. It turned out to be 15-year-old Craig Price. There was more than enough evidence against Craig: a hand wounded by a knife, bloody gloves and On account of this guy there were a couple more crimes committed. Craig Price is in prison to this day. For his monstrous crime, this teenager gets 5th place in the ranking of "The Youngest Criminals".
4. Graham Frederick Young
This English boy was fond of chemistry to fanaticism. Or rather, poisons and their effect on humans. He was also very fond of stories about maniacs, and considered Adolf Hitler his idol. He began experimenting with poison at the age of 14. He possessed a truly natural talent for resourcefulness and acquired various poisons in such a way that no one suspected anything. The victims of his experiments were close people - friends and relatives.
Yang managed to poison his father, stepmother, sister. In 1962 he was arrested. During the investigation, it turned out that Graham is crazy. He spent 9 years (out of 15 awarded) in a psychiatric hospital and came out supposedly healthy. At large, the criminal found work and began to poison his colleagues. After that, he again ended up in places of deprivation of liberty, where he died in 1990. For his "inventiveness" Graham Frederick was ranked fourth in the list of "The youngest criminals."
3. Jessie Pomeroy
Jesse began to commit his terrible deeds from the age of 11. It is worth noting that this boy is the youngest criminal in the United States. He lured his comrades into secluded places and killed them with the most cruel methods. Before he was caught by the police, Pomeroy managed to kill 7 children. The maniac spent 21 years in the colony. After his release, he again took up his old ways and killed 2 children. The court sentenced him to Jesse died in solitary confinement at the age of 72.
2. John Venables and Robert Thomson
Two teenagers took second place - 10-year-old John Venables and Robert Thomson. These very young criminals kidnapped and brutally beaten a 2-year-old boy. To hide the traces of the crime, they decided to throw the child on railways. They received 10 years in prison for each.
1. Francois Bertillon
All records were broken by 23-month-old Francois Bertillon. However, his crimes cannot be put on a par with the above. In 1891, the boy was accused of gluttony, as he bit into all the pears in the basket. The guilt of the child was fully proved by his father, who invented the bertillonage. But despite such an insignificant act, it is believed that Francois is the youngest criminal.
And if the last crime causes only a smile, then all the rest inspire only horror and fear.
Children grow up killers not so much because of innate psychopathic characteristics, but for social reasons. However, when the combination of soil and environment occurs, the process of turning a child into a killer can become irreversible.
Jessie Pomeroy
Immediacy in expressing feelings and performing actions, impulsiveness is the main feature of every child. They, as they say, lack prudence, about such a restraining beginning, present in adults.
Another feature of children is susceptibility to other people's influence, great suggestibility, as well as the plasticity of their psyche. And finally, the third feature of the younger generation is increased activity. If there is no positive guiding influence, or the child is left to himself, his behavior inevitably becomes criminal.
Jack the Ripper in shorts
The most notorious and infamous of all the juvenile killers was Jessie Pomeroy who lived in the United States at the end of the 19th century. It was a kind of Jack the Ripper in short pants. Jesse Pomeroy was a lanky, awkward teenager with a cleft lip and an eyesore. This was the subject of ridicule among peers and embittered the youngster, who vented his wild irritation on children younger and weaker than himself. He took the victim under some pretext to a secluded place, tied and undressed, and then beat him half to death.
He was quickly identified by the investigating authorities because of his specific appearance and was sentenced to stay in a reform school when he was only 12 years old. A year and a half later, he was released, but a month later he committed his first murder: in the suburbs of Boston, they found the disfigured body of a 4-year-old girl, Horace Mullen, on which there were more than forty stab wounds, and the baby’s head was almost separated from the body.
Suspicion immediately fell on Jesse Pomeroy, in whose room they found a bloody knife, and on the soles of his boots - the soil from the place where the corpse was found. The teenager was taken into custody, and his mother had to leave for another place where no one knew her and her son. The new owner of the house, expanding the basement of their former home, found another child inside the body parts. It turned out to be the previously missing Mary Curran.
Jesse Pomeroy was sentenced to death, but later commuted to life in prison just because of the young age of the killer. In subsequent years, the already grown criminal committed several failed attempts escaped and died in a prison psychiatric hospital at the age of 72. The name of Jesse Pomeroy was on everyone's lips in the United States for many years to come. Still would! It was believed that he killed about thirty children under torture ...
John Venables and Robert Thompson
On Friday, February 12, 1993, 25-year-old Denise Bulger went shopping with her brother's girlfriend and took her 2-year-old son James with her. At half-past three they arrived at the New Strand, where, after a series of purchases, they entered a butcher shop at 3:40 p.m.
Since James had done a great job at the children's clothing store they had been to before, Denise left him outside the shop door. She did not plan to stay long in the shop, but the butcher mixed up her order. When she came out, she saw that her son was gone.
A review of CCTV footage revealed her son being taken away by two boys who turned out to be 10-year-olds. Robert Thompson and John Venables. The time on the recording was 15:42.
According to witnesses, half an hour before James was kidnapped, juvenile delinquents tried to take away another kid, but his mother noticed it in time.
The investigation also found that many eyewitnesses saw two teenagers dragging a crying James with them. Despite the bruises on his face, few people intervened, and those who intervened were satisfied with the answers "This is our little brother" or "And we are just going to the police, he must be lost."
From the car window, another witness will notice that older children seem to be throwing either a child or a doll down from a low bridge, but, having assured herself that it could not be a child, she will drive on. There they will be met by a man on a motorcycle, who will pay attention to the sobbing, smeared baby, who is being dragged to the bridge.
The motorcyclist will ask what is the matter and will hear the same story: the little brother got lost, fell, we are taking us to the police station to be taken home ... A woman walking a dog will see that Venables and Thompson are carrying a child by the arms and legs. She will be worried, but it will seem to her that the little boy is laughing, and she will think that he likes this rude game.
Venables and Thompson got tired of this walk and dragged James to a vacant lot by the railroad embankment. There from 17.45 to 18.30 they killed him. They kicked him, jumped on him, beat him with stones, bricks, and an iron rod. They pulled off his pants and scratched his genitals. They stuffed batteries in their mouths. Then they put the tormented body on the rails and rushed home.
James's body was found two days later.
The police did not hide the circumstances of the case from the public, and a few days later a woman called the station and, introducing herself as a friend of Suzanne Venables, said that Suzanne's son, John, had not been at home until late on the day of the murder and that since then he had become somehow nervous . And also, they say, Suzanne complained that Johnny's new jacket was all stained with blue paint, and it was traces of blue paint that were on little James's clothes, right?
The killers came from dysfunctional families in which violence was commonplace. Neither John nor Robert concealed anything. But they could not answer one question: “Why did you do this?”.
Thirty-eight witnesses identified them. The prints of the shoes on the baby's body matched the pattern of their shoes. A complete set of hair, fingerprints, and DNA particles from the juvenile killers was found on James and the murder weapons.
At the trial, they did not show the slightest remorse - only fear. Because British law allows children as young as 10 years of age to be tried, the murderers were given a maximum sentence of 10 years for their age.
In 2000, the judiciary revised the sentence towards mitigation, and in June 2001 they were released and given documents under new names. Their current whereabouts are being kept secret.
Mary Bell
In 1968, this beautiful 11-year-old British woman, along with her 13-year-old mentally retarded friend, strangled two boys aged 3 and 4.
Particular public outrage was caused by the details of Mary's behavior after the murder: she literally did not get out of the houses of her heartbroken parents, buzzarding to be shown the "boy in the coffin", and leaving graffiti on the walls in the style of "I killed and will kill again!"
Placed in a mental hospital, she showed outbursts of aggression for some time - for example, she almost strangled a kitten that wandered into the ward. In 1980 Mary Bell was released and lived quietly under the protection of the law on the immunity of family members of criminals.
In 1984, she gave birth to a daughter, and until the girl's 18th birthday, the law forbade the police and the press from disclosing her family history. For her 18th birthday, daughter Bell, who knew nothing about her mother's past, received a great gift in the form of a flock of reporters who surrounded their house, demanding to know how "the most devilish girl in England" was doing.
In 2003, Mary and her daughter won the right to lifelong privacy for Bell Jr. Their documents were changed and they were helped to leave for some new place.
A juvenile murderer from Russia
This path has not bypassed our country. In 1964, this child caused disgust among all the inhabitants of Leningrad, and his own mother abandoned him. It's about a 14 year old Arcadia Neiland, who in cold blood hacked two people with an axe.
Here Short story newly minted ripper. His family was dysfunctional. The stepfather drank and often beat his stepson. Arkady did not fit into the courtyard company either - weak-willed, with an unsightly figure, he did not evoke any respect for himself and therefore was subjected to all sorts of humiliations.
Arkady was malnourished, stole small things and ran away from home. As a result of stress, he developed nocturnal enuresis, and when his mother sent her son to a boarding school, this became an additional factor for his persecution by his peers. And he held a grudge against everyone and everything, gradually turning into a wild beast...
The day before his birthday, the teenager decided to get hold of money in order to go south, where he intended to start a new life away from his disgusted mother and stepfather. Arkady, of course, did not read "Crime and Punishment" by F.M. Dostoevsky, but in the same way he took an ax and went in search of wealthy people.
Unlike Raskolnikov, there was no philosophy in this intention - the teenager simply wanted to "live beautifully." On the morning of January 27, 1964, he rang the doorbell of the apartment he had chosen, introducing himself as a postal worker. As soon as the hostess opened the door, he immediately knocked her to the floor with blows of an ax. Seeing this picture, the three-year-old son of a woman screamed heartbreakingly.
So that his scream would not be heard by the neighbors, the killer turned on the tape recorder located in the apartment at full power and dealt the child a decisive blow. Having hacked to death the tenants, this child, disfigured by life and fate, washed his hands as if nothing had happened, slowly cooked himself scrambled eggs from the products found in the refrigerator and ate. On the master's camera, he filmed the hostess undressed by him in an indecent pose, hoping then to sell the photo as pornography.
Then he set fire to the newspapers, turned on the gas and left, not forgetting to lock the front door. Soon, the neighbors smelled smoke and called the fire brigade, who, breaking the door, saw the corpses of the hostess and her son. The three-year-old child was completely gray-haired.
Arkady was detained in Sukhumi a few days later. Immediately after the murder, he purchased champagne and cognac, celebrating his birthday in a train car. He did not deny what he had done, because he knew that, due to his infancy, he would not be given more than ten years in a colony.
But he was wrong. On August 11, 1964, the boy was shot by Khrushchev's personal order. This is the only case in Russian judicial practice when a child was sentenced to capital punishment.
How to relate to these stories is a personal matter for each person, it is easiest to dismiss with contempt and hope that this will never affect you personally. And a difficult childhood, of course, is no excuse for brutal murders. Many children unfortunately live in dysfunctional families, and this is not a reason to turn into animals.
However, this is a serious reason to think about the fact that only love can give rise to love, only kindness gives birth to kindness, and in response to the brutal attitude towards the child by the closest people - mother and father - you don’t have to wait for love and tenderness in response.
We, adults, grow and educate our continuation, prepare the future of the Earth, put our Love or Dislike into it, and what it will be depends primarily on us.
Soldier childhood
As you know, the number of wars and revolutions in the world does not decrease, and therefore an increasing number of children are involved in this meat grinder. Most often, children become victims of various bloody showdowns. But sometimes they, along with adults, take part in hostilities.
The guys can come to such a decision voluntarily, being fanned by the romance of battles, adult stories and boyish passion for weapons. In other cases, they are recruited or forcibly taken from the family. This happens especially quickly when one of the relatives of the future little warriors in the family dies or when they grow up in conditions of poverty and hopelessness.
Such children are part of combat and reconnaissance groups, participate in the installation and clearance of mines, etc. Children used as militants are deprived not only of education, but also of their childhood, and the constant contemplation of killings and violence gives them a kind of mental anesthesia , as a result of which they begin to perceive what is happening as the norm, and themselves, with the encouragement of adults, begin to behave in the same way as their mentors. A huge number of juvenile soldiers die during battles with the enemy.
The experience of the Second World War, when the agonizing Nazi regime used school soldiers as its last shield, is indicative here. These very young soldiers, zombified by Nazi propaganda, showed insane fanaticism and continued to fight in the Werewolf units even after the surrender of Nazi Germany.
The experience of the Khmer Rouge in Kampuchea is also noteworthy, when orphans were mobilized into the army from the age of 12.
These children not only got used to the spectacles of the most terrible torture and violence from an early age, but also took a direct part in them. Subsequently, they turned out to be the most devoted and ideological supporters of the regime of Pol Pot and Ieng Sari.
The horror of their cave addictions does not fit into the mind of a normal person. So, for example, with the approval of adults, they could cut out the liver from a prisoner, fry it on a fire and eat it right there. It was considered a delicacy. The cannibalistic inclinations of these young animals and their unbridled fanaticism were subsequently eradicated with difficulty in special camps.
ISIS child soldiers
Most recently, the Islamic State terrorist group released a video of the execution of nine hostages. The footage shows that underage teenagers take part in the massacre. The unit is called "Children of the Caliphate".
According to one of the Syrian human rights organizations, the massacre took place in the city of Hama, which is controlled by militants of the Islamic State.
All teenagers have machine guns in their hands. They themselves do not kill anyone, but they escort hostages and distribute knives to their executioners. The captives kneel, after which the militants decapitate them.
At the end of July 2015, the Takfiri group ISIS abducted more than 180 children from the Iraqi city of Mosul. Saeed Mamouzini, a spokesman for the Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party, said the children, who range in age from 10 to 15, were sent to training bases near the city of Mosul for combat training.
The latest data coming out of Iraq suggests that since the ISIS takeover of the city of Mosul a year ago, more than 1,500 children have been abducted and sent to training camps.
The Takfiri group uses children on both military fronts - in Iraq and Syria - to carry out terrorist attacks and carry out the death penalty. Al-Khayyat Media Center released several videos showing teenagers ruthlessly executing captured soldiers and civilians.
An Iraqi boy who escaped from a training camp of a terrorist group spoke about a sophisticated method of educating young militants. As the boy said, they were forced to cut off the heads of dolls with swords, while explaining how the “infidels” were executed.
A 14-year-old boy from the Iraqi Yazidi religious minority said he was unable to land the right punch in training, spending several attempts to do so. Then the trainer came up to him and showed him how to hold the sword correctly.
“He taught me how to hold a sword and how to strike. When everything worked out, he said that I cut off the head of an infidel,” said the teenager, who was called Yahya in the camp.
Children were subjected to harsh propaganda of extremist ideas both in schools and in mosques. ISIS militants are raising “caliphate cubs” from them. They arranged picnics for children with soft drinks and sweets, where they also continued their propaganda.
According to Yahya, the training conditions at the training camp were very harsh, and the children were subjected to constant beatings. Once, Yahya was forced to fight his 10-year-old brother, and he knocked out his tooth.
“The coach said that if I hadn’t done that, he would have shot me. He said it would make me tougher. They beat us all the time,” Yahya said.
In another recent video from ISIS, another 10-year-old boy appears as the executioner. A child personally decapitates a soldier with a knife.
A similar practice of using children as uncomplaining killing machines continues to flourish in many armed conflicts in Africa and the Middle East, South-East Asia And South America. It is estimated that there are about half a million underage soldiers deployed around the world today.
However, the conscription of children into the army or their involvement in partisan detachments This is not only the lot of third world countries. So, for example, Great Britain, contrary to the norms international law calls for military service 16-year-olds, and from the age of 17 allows them to participate in hostilities. The young British "marked themselves" in the war with Argentina over the Falklands, in the Desert Storm campaign and in the war in the Balkans.
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