in my life...this is one of them. This kid needs locked away from society. God bless the little 5 year old girl..

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Just looking at this kids eye's tell you that he is one trouble child. And I agree he should be tried as an adult. He did an adult crime with out any remorse, he should go down like an adult.

he dosen't have any remorse? He is very troubled to be sure. To say he has no remorse, well you just do not know that. They have yet to publish anything he has said or to let him say anything about it. I agree he needs to be locked away for a very long time. He should also receive intensive mental therapy. In this picture he does not look evil to me. He looks like he is pouting like the child he is.

Damn, this kid is pure evil, you can see it. His other photo was pretty scary also. I agree with the other posters that this kid needs some serious mental help pronto. At least they caught this kid before he could become a serial rapist or killer. With our prison system though if he does get out he is more than likley ro reoffend again.

could have happened in his young life to make him do something so horrific? I am by no means pointing fingers at the parents but has there been any investigation into their lives?

What would the Spartans done with a person like this? Not supported him with food, housing, med care, psych care, dental care.... for the next 70 years.

What a worthless puke.

A sociopath can lead a normal noneventful life. It is a disconnect in the brain that can cause this. Not necessarily anything the parents did or didn't do. Some people just make choices they think are normal and o.k. That's what the mental sickness this kid has does to him. I'm not saying he doesn't desserve a very bad punishment, I'm just saying sometimes the parents are not to blame.

Is it just me or does the picture of the kid designed to make him look guilty. I know I am being judgemental but I found myself saying, "look at that brat, figures he'd do something like that" Bad picture or not if the kid did it he needs to be punished as an adult.

that the same conversation was had years ago about Dahmer, Gacy, and yes, Duncan? If something drastic isn't done with this kid, we will be wondering what happened 15-20 years from now!

Doesn't his head look like it is spun around backwards?

there are many like it but this one is mine" the kid looks just like the guy from Full Metal Jacket, Private Pyle.

Anyone who supports the decision to try a 12 year old child as an adult is mean-spirited and out of touch with civilized notions of decency. Sending children to be used as rape fodder at the state prison does not qualify you for heaven when it is done. God likely will judge you more harshly than he will judge this very sick boy.

There is not ONE modern documented case in the US of trying a child this young as an adult except in a few rare cases of murder in Florida and South Carolina. Florida always pushes the envelope - it is no longer news when they try 13 year olds so prosecutors had to drop down to lower ages to get headlines. Ask yourself why the prosecutor is doing this here - what is his true purpose? What if this kid had been 11? 10? How young is too young?

Although the prosecution alleges attempted murder here, the circumstances sound like a panic-stricken 12 year old who did something awful, realized what he had done after a frenzied act, and attempted to flee the scene. The girl recovered after several days in the hospital - that doesn't sound like ateempted murder to me - despite the descriptions of the two witnesses - who BTW - seemed able to restrain the boy with little effort. If he had wanted to kill her, he could have done so - children have successfully murdered other children since antiquity (it is not a new development) - he could have bashed in her head or choked her until she completely stopped breathing. The police ALWAYS allege that the suspect has no remorse. I expect that the boy did not show traditional remorse because he was too young and immature to understand the nature and consequences of his actions - or too emotionally disturbed and mentally ill. Remember that he is now an adolescent - much bigger physically and the press photo here is deliberately designed to make him look menacing. Your responses indicate that their biased photo was quite successful. But I see a kid who displays the physical symptoms of fetal alcohol syndrome or some other neurological disorder - note the size of his head and his features - which may explain sociopathic behavior. We know that children that young lack the cognitive ability to fully understand the nature and consequences of their actions. We also know from statistics that 12 year old sex offenders can be completely rehabilitated - despite the Mainstream Media Myths to the contrary. We also know that the Center for Disease Control has published a report that says that children tried as adults are at much greater risk for re-offending. If you try this kid as an adult and send him to the state prison, he will certainly continue to be sexually abused (as he likely already has been). He will not be rehabillitated and he will be a greater danger when he leaves. Let's face it - he will get out some day. You had 10 years to see to his proper treatment in the juvenile system - that is plenty of time and plenty of punishment for someone that young. What does the prosecutor hope to gain? A forced guilty plea brought on by sheer terror of decades in adult prison, confinement that will include adult time and take the boy into his 20s. Then you should be REALLY scared because if he spends even a moment in adult prison, he will be in danger of sexual abuse, which will wipe out any progress that he makes in a youthful sex offender program.

Stop this insanity. You shame yourselves with your brutality and cruelty. You shame America.

Bubba can perform an exorcism on this sweet little angel.