An especially disturbing letter from the usual source...


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If he were my child


The 14-year-old Kobe boy who killed at least two children in 1997, beheading
one of them, is soon to be set loose following his "rehabilitation" in a
juvenile correctional institute. The 12-year-old who killed "Shun-kun" in
Nagasaki on July 1 will no doubt be similarly treated because of his age.

As a woman who has given birth to two children, I would not wait for the law
to take its course and set my child "free" without consideration for the
victims. I would personally strangle any child of mine who committed such an
act so that such a reprehensible thing would not be repeated. They could
hang me for it, but I would have no way to make compensation to the victim's
parents. I would not blame myself for what my child did, but I would not
forgive my child for taking another's life.

They make much of the pain a woman experiences for giving birth to a child,
but such pain must be nothing compared to that of the mother whose child has
been killed. 

NAME WITHHELD 
Kawasaki, Kanagawa
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