I've seen that photo before, still hard to look at.
One version is the kid was left alone as adults were rushing to a food centre. Vultures were around etc but the kid survived. In other versions it was shooed off. Forced perspective etc, in others she's just a starving kid and one of hundreds or thousands most likely. Very sad stuff at any rate.
Anyway its a very evocative image. Famine pictures aren't for the faint hearted.
You know that shit has to have happened. The photographer topped himself, Carter was also the first guy to photograph victims of 'necklacing' in SA . That's being killed by being immolated with a rubber tyre round your neck. Gruesome stuff.
The Manic Street Preachers wrote a song about him.
The Bulger case in the OP. That was a national story in the uk for a long time and it can still make front page today. It was just a terrible thing.
Two ten year olds, it boggled peoples minds. I felt the years in detention weren't enough given the severity of the crime but the only equivalent was the Mary Bell case and successful rehabilitation.
Despite 10 being the age of legal responsibility, I felt the court case was poorly handled.
What they did to that kid was beyond description, in Liverpool especially its a touchy subject. Those men (as they are now) have contracts on their lives.
The sentence was seen as way to lenient and they got new identities from tax payers money. It really fucking grinds the gears.
To incarcerate for to long removes any hope of rehabilitation. I think a case like that just exposes the system, judiciary, penal etc just isn't equipped to deal with children killing children. Its so rare.
Those kids became lab rats at the whim of home secretaries and specialists under pressure. I'd have given them a life sentence and if not fit to rejoin society then tough shit. Due to the circumstances and the authorities reluctance to place them at risk they're in a no mans land.
No-one feels justice was done. If their identity is exposed they are chopped liver and the authorities can be held responsible. Equally new identities are very expensive from the top of my head only Mary Bell, Maxine Carr and the Bulger killers have this.
Its a blanket press ban. When you consider those above however, apart from Bell who's old now and forgotten. The others might be safer in custody.
