[Livia]

I can't immediately assume that the person carrying out a crime like this is a product of bad parenting. Sometimes people have the best start in life and turn out to be scumbags. Sometimes people have appalling childhoods and turn into model citizens. There are, I know, lots of information to take into account when something like this happens. I'm not justifying some of the knee-jerk comments ,I made one myself, but I just cannot condone the woolly-minded liberalism that asks us to act in accordance with some higher moral thinking that dictates we must treat a crimal with the sympathy and understanding that the justice system does not seem to extend, in many cases, to the victim.