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Certainly not every child.
How would you even "put a 5 year old away?" where would she go? Kiddie-jail?? How would that work? I haven't read all of the thread but that was the first thing that popped up in my mind. Crazy. If she had malicious intent then certainly something needs to be done, therapy, etc. But definitely agree on where was the supervision so this horrible tradgedy didn't have to happen.
there are intensive treatments centers for five year olds.
When I was six i was sent to one of them. As an abused child I was prone to fits of anger, crying, and screaming, made worse by being picked on by the other children, and isolated/ostracized and pulled out to be a public example by teachers, who had little patience for me, and refused to help me when I was tormented mercilessly ( some teachers made a game of baiting and tormenting me themselves).
The child psychiatric mixed with tough love wing had every sort of kid form kids with genuine mental illnesses to children who were on drugs, to abused children, to simple spoiled brats.
I think it would have worked if they didn't take the same approach with all the children. You can not treat a spoiled child the same as a child who was abused.
so in short there are places to send children who commit crimes/ show sever social problems/ mental illness at that age.
Whether they work is debatable though.
personally I believe the child was either abused, or framed.
That is great that there are places for children to go, I am really happy there is help out there like that. When I read the OP's post those questions just popped in to my head, I wasn't trying to sound sarcastic or anything, just me working through the circumstance.
