It is yet another case a dysfunctional family, and the brutalized children going on to subject two other boys to some appalling cruelty.
A British judge sentenced Friday two brothers, all of eleven and ten years, to an indefinite period of detention for torturing two other children. The attackers were placed on the sex offenders register for three years.
The boys also received 24 months detention for the offences of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and 18 months' detention for robbing the boys.
They were each sentenced to 30 months detention after they admitted causing another 11-year-old actual bodily harm a week before the young boys were attacked.
And it was all gratuitous violence, they had nothing specific against their victim duo, it so happened they caught their eyes at that time.
For about 90 minutes the attackers gave vent to their sick imagination, punching, kicking, throttling the two with cable, cutting with barbed wire, battering with rocks and branches, covering them in burning plastic sheeting, plunging a burning cigarette into an open wound….
They had come across their victims playing on a climbing frame. They both said at the same time 'Do you want to bang them?' - meaning 'batter them' - and immediately said 'jinx,' a children's word for saying the same thing together.
They lured the boys into wooded wasteland and set about assaulting them.
Two brothers tortured and attacked two innocent boys because they were 'bored' and had 'nowt else to do.'