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The Murder of James Bulger - Two 10-year-old boys abducted, tortured, and murdered a two-year-old boy, James Patrick Bulger. They led him away while he and his mother were shopping. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I really don't recommend reading the details of what they did to James

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As a father to a 2 year old boy, this is one event summary I couldn't make it through. If that were my kid I would have likely gone insane and gone on a killing spree of those kids parents and later those kids when they got out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I don't blame you, this case is hard to stomach