At what age are you accountable for your actions

[Yawn]

so basically i was just thinking with jon venables being released wat r ur thoughts??? (the story is in the link below)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23190447

he and his friend when they were 10 tortured and murdered a toddler. should he live the rest of his life in jail for wat he did at a very young age? has he served his time?

[myles]

this sort of thing knocks me sick that they allow such a cruel human being back into the world after a crime he committed that effected the victims parents life. To know that your son was a victim of this cruel act would be heartbreaking and devastating. he shouldnt have even been allowed out the first time let alone this time. people like him dont deserve a second chance in life and i wouldnt usually say this but he deserves the death penalty. he may have been young but i'm sorry, no 11 year old is that stupid

[Yawn]

idk obviously i think that at 10 years old u make mistakes and obviously u shouldnt spend ur whole life paying for those actions. but then for a 10 year old to KILL AND TORTURE some1 that is absolutely insane and no normal child would do that. there is evidently something seriously wrong with him. also with the whole child porn thing a couple of years back it confirms that he is messed up as **** and there is no way he should be released

[Lewis]

I say seven years old -- but it depends how you're brought up.

[Yawn]

it just sound weird to blame 30 year old man for something he did at 10

[myles]

subo are you really saying that. even though he was 10 at the time he should know the difference between wrong and right. it is ridiculous to think that a 10 year old boy couild even thing of committing such a cruel act. but shockingly jon venables did so he should be sentenced for the rest of his life as he is seriously ****** up. could you not see the first time he was released how ****** up he really was when he was downloading all that inappropriate content onto his computer. that confirms it in my opinion

[FlyingJesus]

People do change so I get where you're coming from but him potentially (or almost certainly in fact) being a different person to who he was back then doesn't unfortunately change what happened, nor does it mean that he's no longer a threat to anyone. At 10 you should know not to rape and murder a toddler and that's that frankly

[Milarz]

13.

[Empired]

There's a book called Looking for JJ by Anne Cassidy which is a lot like this. It's about a girl who murders her friend at age 10ish and then what she's like seven years later out of prison. I read it a long time ago so I can't really remember but I'm sure "JJ" didn't kill her friend out of malice though, it was kind of half an accident.

I just don't know what to think in situations like these. Part of me thinks that everyone should be given a second chance but another part of me is wondering whether I'd be ok standing next to a man who had murdered a toddler at the age of 10.. Without a doubt I would run away as fast as I could.

[Lewis]

13.

thirteen? As if. A seven year old knows whats right and wrong, even most six year olds.

Seven is the perfect age for knowing between right and wrong. isnt @yuxin; like twelve dnno. does that mean she can get a gun and go on a massive killing spree and get away with it by your thought???