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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

She didn't do some stupid tweets or sneak into the wine cellar ... she went to join a terrorist death cult. Two of these are things that dumb kids do, one is something a terrorist does.

I don't trust that she "doesn't need" rehabilitation, especially as she's previously said she doesn't regret her actions.

The hard to swallow truth is that it IS the same though. Teenagers are susceptible to suggestion and easily drawn into a group mentality and thus they are easily - much, much more easily than we would comfortably like to believe - drawn into extreme ideologies by adults with an agenda.

"This couldn't happen to my kid/brother/sister/niece/nephew because..." NO. You are plainly wrong, yes it could if you don't pay attention, it is a fundamental truth of adolescent psychology and we see it in "smaller ways" every single day. Just have a glance at social media. Kids absolutely all over it spouting an absolute tonne of extreme, poorly thought out, parroted rhetoric that may seem different to "scary islamic extremism" but it actually isn't. It's the same thing. The risks are different. The mechanism is IDENTICAL.

Believing anything else is taking our eye off the ball and much, MUCH more dangerous than accepting that some of these kids were simply let down, brainwashed, abused and then abandonned.

15 is a child. She was failed by her parents, failed by this country, then further abused by other adults... the whole thing is gross. It'd be gross even if she had been an active combatant - which she was not, she was effectively a sex slave and womb.

The ONLY question should be, "is she currently dangerous". Which to be frank we simply don't know because people are too scared of adverse public opinion to do the right thing and check.