I know the crime is pretty terrible, but we really don't know the whole story. Mr. Sullivan might have been raped daily by a crazy uncle. He might have had cr

I know the crime is pretty terrible, but we really don't know the whole story. Mr. Sullivan might have been raped daily by a crazy uncle. He might have had crack put in his baby formula. He really might have been subject to all kinds of terrible abuse - you just don't know. This is why law is complicated, why we have trials, and judges, court psychologists, social workers and other professionals whose job it is to figure out what to do with kids like this. I really wanted to comment because I work very closely with the NYC Juvenile Crimes division - I actually built their case management database and work with their prosecutors almost daily. You rarely hear the whole story, especially in these unusual types of cases, so it's best to leave it to the professionals. I've learned that the answer to every question in law (and actually in engineering too) is always "it depends".