Those are all fair comments. Thanks for adding them. I'll read the article you posted. I'm still unhappy that as a society we put 14 year olds in jail, but your comments clarify things about the case for me.

I will add that the fact that the 15 yr old suspect lied reflects even more poorly on the police. It's really strange that they wouldn't have told him "if you are under 16 we have to have your parents here" and then he would have lied. That looks very strange to me and makes me speculate there was more there in the confessions.