Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote in message news:<beis0u$jbi$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp>...
> On 7/9/2003 10:11 PM, Eric Takabayashi wrote:
> 
> > What is scary is not the fact a 12 year old is
> > admitting to the crimes, what is scary is all the
> > acquaintances saying that the boy is "no different"
> > from other boys.
> 
> I wonder if I'm the only one who finds the similarities between this 
> case and the notorious James Bulger murder in Britain to be absolutely 
> eerie.
> 
> http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics3/bulger/
> 
> When I heard about how the boy had been killed, and the circumstances of 
> his abduction, I immediately thought that the culprits must be boys not 
> many years older than the victim. How we find out that a 12-year-old boy 
> appears to be responsible. Creepy.

What made you think that? I thought it was an adult pedophile who
prefers boys. There's been more of that reported recently.