How do you survive 19 stabbings?
Luck, vital organs missed, not bleeding out completly. Humans don't have health bars like in video games
as a kid, it's easier for me (and everyone else on this forum) to say that they should be tried as adults, but I don't think so
they were like, twelve years old
instead of ruining the rest of their lives forever, for no real reason, it would be a lot better to actually try to help themit's not unusual
One of my community policing/patrol procedures professors(also retired cop) lost his mind and was speechless when he heard about this case. I think the original premise was about video game violence and youth and the effect it has on the mind. I mean this whole thing was just an ARG that was made into several games and a meme, and somehow these two kids are convinced slender man is a real entity that will let them live in a mansion.
The human mind is strange. One could argue that these kids didn't process the consequences fully because their brains are still developing, and the other could argue that these kids had the mind of an adult and knew fully what they were doing was wrong. When I was 8 I knew that killing people was and wrong and meant jail time + prison, but apparently kids think otherwise.
I am conflicted though about this issue.
i feel like juvenile would suit them better. after all they're twelve year olds, so five years is almost half of their lives, which means that for them it's a considerably large amount of time.
they didn't manage to kill her, and when they get out of juvenile they'd already be 17, so that's around the time one should be in 12th grade or graduating high school, and they haven't even entered high school.
Attempted murder is still a felony. They could send them to prison call it day, the prison wont fix them and they'll lose a chunk of their life for something they committed as kids. On the other hand they can send them to juvy where they wont really get fixed, they'll walk out and there will be chance they'll attempt something like this again because for all we know there is something wrong with the way to think and perceive the world. The other option is juvy+extended prison time and rehabilitation.
We don't really know how to "reform" or "rehabilitate" people. We can break a person, but correcting or fixing something we perceive to be a problem is both subjective and difficult. I guess you could try convincing them to change, but deep down within only one's self can make that choice to change. Either way, most people just hope it sorts itself out by having the problem swept under a rug to be forgotten like a candy wrapper being thrown away.
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