[Geek44]

Funny how we get to work destroying the brain almost as soon as we can.

What amazed me the most about the Bulger case was how I reacted to it. As I said, when it happened, I barely gave it a thought...just more of the usual to me at the time. Certainly it was an unusual crime in that the perpetrators were so young. When I was reminded of it last year, and read the details...it totally horrified me... because I had a son of the same age as young Jamie. I thought about it a lot, talked about it with people I knew and on more than one occasion, cried over it.
Anger and disgust don't really cover the depth of feeling I had over it. If they'd paraded the criminals in front of me I would have happily killed them. Until I spoke about it to a woman I know who works for legal aid...which is free legal representation for people who can't afford it. She pointed out to me that these two kids suffered awful abuse at the hands of their parents. In an atmosphere like that, pain and suffering become 'normal'. That's how life is for these people. The abused all too often become abusers.
I just felt that my own anger and thirst for blood had been a little hasty.
Peace.