Because of his age, if I were a judge, I would not have ordered him to spend that much time in prison. I wouldn't have sent him there at all.

I'd order that he be placed into a reahab program for counciling and some psyciatric help. Throwing him in prison even for a few years just isn't the answer.

I hope that his mom can get a powerful attourney to help get him out of there and into a program. As horrible and sick as the crime is that he committed, he just doesn't deserve that type of adult court treatment.

He's only 13, and he shouldn't be forced to spend 60 years of his life behind bars!!! What he did was wrong, yes, and he broke the law, but two wrongs don't make it right! He maimed and scarred this little girl for life, but he himself is still just a child!! He had hoped that the girl would die so that she wouldn't be able to blow the whistle on him.

He wasn't given a fair trial. They should retry him and get some help for him. The boy has a pychological problem and a possibly suffers from some type of autistic, mental or bipolar disorder. The judge should not have been so quick to throw him into prison friggen without ordering that the boy be sent for a medical / psychological evaluation first, however long it would take!!

This case is quite similar to the one that occured years ago where a then 12-year-old boy lured a 6-year-old boy into going with him into the woods and once there, the older boy just went bonkers and strangled the younger boy, beating and punching him in the face until he died!!

Or the other case where a then overweight 12-year-old was showing his sister some wrestling moves and jumped from the stairs onto her, killing her!!

What makes young boys snap like this and just go bonkers and out of their minds where they end up going berserk, killing or nearly killing innocent victims? This is part of the reason why I don't argue with kids, especially those between 12, 13 and 16 or 17. They LOOK for an excuse to want to harm you! You never know when they might pull out a gun or a knife!!

On buses and trains, I sit with my back to the window or wall. That way, if a child wants to do a sneak attack on me, he can't get at me from behind. He'll have to try it from the front where I can see him and try to stop him. And if I walk away from a kid who wants to argue and poke me for a fight, I walk away with with my eyes on him so that he can't jump me from behind.

About 20 years ago, a man on the subway had witness three young boys between the ages of twelve and thirteen harass and poke fun at another passenger - an elderly man. Then the boys went over to that person and tried to rob him of his wallet. The boys were caught and stopped after the police came on the train because the man had reported them to the police.

Before getting off the train, one of the boys told him; "This is not going to stay like this. It's not over yet." A week or so later, that man was murdered!! The three little boys were suspected of murdering him, but it was never proven whether they did or not.