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I remember this though I wasn't aware of all the details of everything they did to the poor kid. It sickens me that a judge thought it was ok to release them but it wasn't ok to release their new identities. Where's karma when you need it.
I guess it's cuz they were 10 at the time? Idk, I don't envy the people who had to deal with this case
Later in the article, it goes over how one of the boys, Venables, was arrested multiple times and two of those times were for possession of CSAM and the government is still trying to keep his identity secret. They even considered resettling him outside the country:
I mean, they had some of the longest juvenile sentences ever given. You can't keep someone in forever.