3 Year old Child thrown into Crocodile Pit in UK

Violent crime was just as prevalent in the past but the media coverage wasnt there.

A kid was crucified in palmerstown in the 70s .Dessie O Hare was cutting off hostages body parts in the 80s. Priests and dodgy uncles were raping kids for the last 100 years.

James bulger was in the 90s.

All the serial killers from the 60s to the 90s that had fancy names and were media darlings.

A sister of a friend of mine was stabbed and killed in ireland in early 2000s.

Yorkshire ripper. Moors murderers. Harold shipman. All in Britain, never mind the USA. And foreign language countries we know nothing about.

Terrorist related stuff was just as common too. Read history books about what used to go on.

It has always happened since start of humanity. Dont pretend its new, its not. We just spend our days online now, only difference.

So one tragedy means tens of thousands of people should spend their entire lives in solitary confinement?

Maybe they should just be exterminated, that would be cheaper, and probably even more humane.

Every human has dangerous tendencies. We are all capable of doing terrible things if something flips inside us, either through a bad life experience, some medication that has a wierd effect on us, an illness or brain injury/

Every one of us has had 'intrusive thoughts' and every single one of us has done something in our past that we regret doing and think 'what was I thinking'

The phrase 'hard cases make bad law' is true. In life there is tragedy. This poor child was in the wrong place at the wrong time, the person with intellectual disabilities didn't ask for those brain injuries and was reliant on their carers to protect them from themselves and others, and the carers, will spend the rest of their lives regretting what they didn't do to keep that child safe.

'Lock them all up forever' is substituting one form of harm for another.

The reporting makes clear that the person in question has some form of diminished capability, but it's not clear what. I've seen mention he is non verbal but another report a witness mentions him saying yes to his carers, so not sure the level of disability.

I will say, having a non verbal autistic brother, there were times he has suddenly done things and it was hard/not possible to stop him. Stuff he knew he wasn't supposed to do but wanted to like take an ice cream from a child for himself (not embarassing at all when you're a teenager trying to apologise to an upset child and angry parent and himself enjoying the stolen ice cream). He never in his life ever did anything deliberately to hurt another non family member like described though, if there was a meltdown it was normally people trying to intervene/control him who may have got hit in the process. We would always remove him if he was getting upset.

It's a difficult balance, trying to ensure the disabled person gets to experience things without disrupting everyone else. So my brother came along with us for grocery shopping all the time for instance, but one of us would bring him outside for a walk around the car park if the noise was bothering him that day. It wasn't always fair to everyone around us, but it was necessary and now as an adult he travels abroad on planes good as gold (he's been to America twice now) and enjoys doing new things.

I'd be interested to know what the nature of the disability in question is though, Jonty Bravery was described as autistic, but the pattern of violence he had would indicate to me there were likely comorbid pathologies.