Adults React to Children Who Committed Murder 

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For the ones feeling bad about Phillips (the first kid), don’t. They didn’t give even close to the full story of what really happened. He not only hid her under his bed, he did it for 6 days, duck taping the corners so the smell wouldn’t come out. He was known to make sexual remarks to the victim and her older sister, when Maddie was found, her lower half was uncovered. Phillip claims he hit her with a bat then put her under his bed; when he heard her still alive he dragged her out of the bed, slit her throat, and stabbed her 7 times before putting her right back under the bed. He also joined the search party to help look for her. It came out that he most likely lied about his father, the bat had no blood on it indicating he just stabbed her to death and it wasn’t to “keep her from crying” like he claimed. He also claimed her lower half became uncovered from dragging her out of the backyard, no dirt or anything was found on her. His story was full of holes.

It doesn't matter the age of the murderer. A murderer is a murderer.

The Eric Smith case is 100% parental neglect. Eric Smith went to his parents and told them he had a feelings of anger. And he didn’t understand why. His parents told him to go outside and punch a tree. He would punch the tree until his hands were bloody. He snapped. He asked for help because he didn’t understand the feelings inside him and his parents completely ignored them!

"Is it fair to send a kid to prison for the rest of their lives for something they did at 10, 12, 13 years old? I don't think so." I usually love Sharon but tell that to James Bulger who was tortured and murdered on a train track by two 10 year olds when he was only 2 years old himself. Yes, it absolutely is fair because Jon Venables and Robert Thompson have shown no remorse for their actions in their adult life so those little bastards knew very fucking well what they were doing.

Murder is murder. Doesn’t matter the age, these kids knew what they were doing

the james bulger case deserved to be in here, it’s heart-wrenching honestly

The second kid, Eric, apparently had anger/mental health issues and he was attending a summer camp and had gotten kicked out and while he was walking back to his house came across the 4 year old boy walking to the summer camp. Eric's dad had told him that when he was angry he should take his anger out by punching things, it just so happened that the poor little 4 year old boy was at the wrong place at the wrong time,

There was another case here in the UK, that involved two young boys who took a younger boy from a shopping mall and killed him. They too were granted anonymity, new names and various other "safe guards" upon their release from juvenile detention. One went on to carry out further abuse, and even then he was granted anonymity. There was massive uproar that these two had their names etc protected and changed to protect them. Disgusting. The parents of the young boy killed have had to live with years of news reports of hiw the government protect the identities of these two killers.

Try the case of Jon Venables and John Thompson, guys. Two ten year old boys from Liverpool who brutally tortured and murdered a 2 year old boy named James Bulger. It's a horrific case

Childhood innocence is viewed as pure, precious, and ultimately good. When you think about it, though, such innocence can account for a lack of distinction between "right/good and wrong/evil," which is why children can often be quite cruel. Edit: Also, since her release, Mary Bell has had a daughter & granddaughter and hasn't committed any other crimes. She still retains anonymity to protect said progeny so they can lead normal lives. Food for thought.

Child killers are a tough thing because the part of the brain that controls impulse and understanding of actions doesn't fully develop until age 25, so I often wonder how many of these children are actually psychopaths versus children who just haven't had the chance to fully form. It's a terrible situation all around

The worse was was the 2 young boys who lured away a toddler and the things they did to him. Disgusting.

The first story I feel like it didn’t give much background to them because he didn’t just did it out of panic because he stalked that little girls sister who was still younger than him. He was not allowed to talk to neither of the girls because he had done many grotesque things to them. So it wasn’t just he was young and panic he was doing messed up stuff before

the boy in the second case at 5:00 was recently paroled after serving 28 years. i understand that the prison system is crowded, but i have the strong belief that if you've spent more time in prison than on the outside, you should either stay in prison or live in a prison-like facility. for example here in Kingston ON, we have a low security prison for elders and people in for life who are no longer violent, and its their own small community. they have houses and sidewalks, they get taken on day trips to grocery stores. its the safest for everyone, they're serving their sentences, but they're not forced to spend their entire lives in a 48sq ft room.

When I hear awful childhoods story's like Mary Bell's. I always wonder what kind of person the child had become if the child had a loving upbringing. They're (child killers with a horrific childhood) deserves psychiatric care and deep rehabilitation. Their parent's deserves prison time, their parents should be held accountable.

You should do junko furuta case because it the most disturbing/gruesome case in Japanese history in my opinion

I worked in a state prison for 26 years. Once, I was talking to two guys about one of their buddies who had been 15 when he fell for life. I commented that he might be eligible to get out since juvenile life sentences were deemed unconstitutional. They told me that he was one that should not be let out. When I asked them why, they said, "Look at his eyes."

IF A CHILD IS ABLE TO PLAN OUT A MURDER AND THEN HIDE IT IN SOMEWAY THEY ARE PSYCHOPATHIC FOR SURE KEEP THEM LOCKED UP.

I don't know how to feel about this. I try repeatedly to get back into the channel but it's not how it used to be. It looks like there were minimal editing done to it and compared to earlier ones, the video lengths are one-quarter of the time. For these true crimes, I feel like they could have been better researched. The videos honestly were not that great of a simplification of the cases. For example, the Mary Bell case. They only added Mary Bell's brain injuries at the hands of her mother. It failed to mention the fact that the reason they suspected Mary was not because of the investigation but because of her sudden outbursts of aggression that results in strangling kids often in the neighborhood. Additionally, the reason she was linked to the murders was that the second had a witness and she draw the first in her notebook before they release the details of the scene in the newspaper.

Be careful how you treat your kids.

ESC 2021, we’ve been waiting for years🥺

The first kid didn't want to get in trouble so he... committed murder. I get he panicked, but damn.

the last one is scary, the fact thats she's out there somewhere in da world. maybe she lives next door to you...😬

ESC 2021 😭

I'm shocked that you guys didn't add James Bulger's killers on this list.

That first kid, it wasn't even the fact that he wasn't allowed to have company over. He was specifically told that that girl was definitely not allowed over. These kids are just... -.- smh

"You look at their eyes." This part. My mother had several students who she could just look at and *know* they were going to be killers one day. While they didn't do anything when she had them in school, later on...she turned out to be right about 3 of them. Two were arrested prior to committing the acts. One was imprisoned after killing someone. I look into people's eyes. I see what she could see. It's so true. It's absolutely chilling.

ESC 2021 PLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1:01 I blame the parents. Cause and effect. Actions have consequences

WHERE IS ESC!!!

I feel like the real reason why it's hard to think if someone should be given parole is because the prison system fails at rehabilitation in the most important and consistent ways

Not going to lie, wished they showed the disturbing letters Mary Bell left at the crime scene. Now that would've given a reaction.

I'm a therapist so in a short answer there's really no good way to answer this question.

Update: In October 2021 Eric Smith was granted Parole and was officially released in February of 2022. He was officially incarcerated for 27 years.

I can't believe they didn't cover the James Bulger case. That was really horrifying.

I’m like are u kidding me, Where is the ESC 2021 reaction 😢 almost a month ago 📆

I think with the mary bell case the brain damage is the key there. I think thats why she got the anonymity is because she was brain damaged and they were able to treat that. If there's a medical basis for a child doing something like this that can be treated then i believe the course of action shouldn't be a lifetime of prison. It should be imprisoning until they reach adulthood and reassessing the child's medical issue, treatment, and their fitness for release. A child should not be given life imprisonment unless it can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they are too mentally unstable to ever be safe for society.

Wait, you guys didn't cover a boy in japan who beheaded another boy and put his head on the gate of the school. That was gruesome. And another japanese girl who slashed her classmates throat.

"You can look in their eyes and you can just tell" ....what a dangerous mindset.

It all depends on the situation. Nature and nurture both affect things. Sometimes one more then the other.

Why is no one talking about the fact that Mary bell looks like the sociopath from dr.Phil?!?!?!

ESC 2021 plz

Bro kids r literally no different from adults when it comes to curiosity h8 anger and mental health. I believe it's blood line problems and bad homes and just being exposed to the wrong shit. It's weird but sad

guys i don't think we're getting an esc 2021 video

where is the ESC 21 vid?! I´ve been waiting for ages.....help

Surprise you didn't include Thompson and Venables for the UK one instead as it is more recent. Two 10 year olds who murdered a 2 year ago.

Im just gonna give up on esc 2021

Who the hell ask for these crazy kids, where's ESC?

React to ESC 2021, then Maneskin's album Teatro d'ira!

It's sad that we live in a world like this honestly

Narrator:"Josh Phillips was born in Jacksonville, Florida on.." Me: *oh guess im moving away from jacksonville*

I am surprised you didn't do the James Buldger case. And Terry Venables has been released from prison in the early 2000s. He was then done for child ponography amongst other things and is now not allowed future parole. Both him and his counterpart were released with new identities but the other bloke hasn't committed.any other crimes.

The first murder was not explained well. It was definitely premeditated murder

ESC 2021, C'MON

In 18:19, Ryan put that question into a very sensible answer. It takes that one in a few million perfect balances of both nature and nurture to just snap, and create a murderer. Even a child.

Imagine adults thinking it's because of violent videogames and they're may lived before violent videogames were invented

I’m from the town where Derrick smith did this and he has just been granted parole. My town is going crazy, as they should. He is not allowed to come back to Savona

I don't think it was fair that first child was sentenced to life... but I guess I only know a portion of what happened.

did not intend on crying this early in the morning but here we are. those poor victims and their families. Rest in Love to those beautiful souls 🖤

3:15 that one kid from the Magic school bus

Crazy to think that red headed kid is not only a free man but was engaged when he left prison.

This just got alot more real now that Eric Smith was granted parole and is now on the streets with us. it now begs the question, who will be his next victim.

It has nothing to do with parents, look at Bundy's case. Also, if a child develops psychopathic tendencies at infancy, it's hard for them to change. When psychiatrist determine that they have become "cured" and they let them go, they usually go back to those tendencies specially IF they stop taking meds. Sad but heard tons of cases on Explore With Us and Stories

How about adults reacting to the Gypsy Rose Blanchard case, and their thoughts on the punishment Gypsy and Nick got.

That was a great esc 2021 reaction video. See u next year

Being Norwegian, I find this really hard to watch. Being raised by aggressive narcissistic parents has consequences. Empathy is taught. It shouldn’t be so difficult for healthy adults to see that the look in the eyes of these children with “no soul”, is disassociation. How far do you actually think you have to push a child before they snap? Either from having their basic human needs removed from an early age. And as often showed severe bullying. No young child should ever have to spend the rest of their life in prison for murder. A child like that has been failed by the people around them. And sending them to prison instead of giving them treatment is a pretty disgusting way to fail them, and others again. There’s a reason America has such a high recidivism rate. Not even children are given a humane chance at learning emotions they weren’t taught. Many of them seeing only abuses and neglect. The American prison model is heartless. Worst of all it’s heartless and inefficient for the safety of people the former prisoners will run into, after not learning the abilities needed to become a part of society again. You have psychiatric evaluation, but no genuine effort is ever made for psychiatric treatment. No learning respect for others, seeing empathy on a daily basis, basic care. Punishment is the most important thing. It made me happy at least seeing Sharon questioning if it’s wrong sending a child to prison for life.

As a fellow parent, I'm happy that one of you points out how horrified the parents of these children are... Or any murderer, for that matter. You think you did right, you try your best, but some people are just broken. To feel that guilt and regret must be agonizing. The mother of one of the columbine shooters has made it her life goal to educate on how to see signs, and not just dismiss things as some edgy phase your kid is going through. Props to that woman.

My Mama always said that a person's eyes are a window into their soul. I watch a lot of true crime & I can say that this is %1000 true. Killers/criminals who feel no remorse have blank, empty, soulless eyes. Except Charlie Manson. His eyes screamed bat-shit crazy & no remorse.

Mary Bells mom also used to sell Mary to her clients. Social services should have removed her long before this happened

I researched the Maddie Clifton case it was so heartbreaking she had so much ahead of her

bruh why that 2nd kid look like jeffrey from diary of a wimpy kid.

Mary Bell was rehabilitated & went on to have a family. Her identity was revealed when a book was written about her & she had to relocate. Apparently she is very well liked.

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these are kids, they shoudnt go to help. they need rehab. keep in mind that their brain and systems they are still developing, they need help. look at Japan they had same issues bak in 1997 and yet they managed to help kids that had were murderers. they need to know why its wrong and why its right.

My siblings don't murder. They torture...

Something like this is the movie “the women across the street from the girl in the window” it’s actually really interesting because (spoiler alert) the murderer was the little 10 year old girl, while she was the one everyone was trying to protect the whole time, simply because she was a child. Nobody even suspected her, or would have thought a child would be a killer. But she ended up being the killer, so I found that a huge plot twist and really interesting.

If you guys are planning on continuing this segment on Children Murderers one that became so famous it turned into a movie was a murder in New Zealand that happened along time ago. The movie is called Heavenly Creatures and its a 1994 film based off a murder that two teenage girls named Pauline Parker & Juliet Hulme acted out upon I believe Pauline Parkers mother back in 1954 might be worth looking into

The redhead Eric Smith recently got parole, and he’s free now. I’m not sure about how I feel about that.

Eric Smith (the redhead one) was actually granted parole in October 2021. He was supposed to be released Nov 17th or 2021but since he didn't have an 'approved residence" at that time, his released was delayed. He was ultimately released February 1st 2022.

3:50 They literally look identical

YOU SHOULD DO A VID OF PARENTS REACTING TO CHILDREN WHO MURDERED THEIR PARENTS

It just goes to show you that anyone at any age can do this stuff unless it's an infant.

I really liked the questions and the whole reflection of the man in the leather jacket

i feel so terrible for the parents that raised their child with love and still they turned out this wau

When Sharon broke with "That poor mom" I'm not used to seeing her near tears. 😪

In a lot of cases with children it makes you wonder what they would have give on to do as adults if they had gotten away with it. Probably saved more lives having them locked up.

The cadence of the narrator in the first story is off, the person sounds like they should be doing the closing comment on a Dhar Mann video, not talking about murder

I find it odd how you never used the James Bulger case or the "I hate mondays" girl.

What about the 215 native children found in BC Canada? As a native, I would most appreciate the awareness~

Mary Bell was also granted anonymity for her children and grandchildren as well, first time

Admit it: You scanned the QR code on that guy's shirt to see if it was real.

I'm surprised they didn't talk about Jon Venables and Robert Thompson.

Sometimes, there are kids who are just plain evil regardless of upbringing.

If you do this again, I think you should show them the James Bulger case. That was honestly just sickening.

Eric Smith was granted prole last year and he's in hiding now, no one knows where he is. My family was so angry that he got out

Kids are savages. They aren't born knowing what is acceptable and what is not- they have to be taught that. We don't intrinsically know right from wrong. They don't know how to act, how to control themselves- or even that they need to. We have to teach them that. That's why children need adult supervision. And sadly some either never get taught, never learn- or learn the wrong things. Everyone has the occasional fucked up thought or urge cross their minds. The difference is that the vast majority of us A) recoil from these thoughts, and B) Know not to act on them. These ones... didn't. I'm not sure we'll ever know why. That Derek Robie murder happened less than an hour from me, and I remember it going on. VERY messed up! The story shown here was highly sanitized- in reality, it was far worse. He did some horrific things to that kid.

why is the Venebles and Thompson case not here? That's probs the most infamous case not linked to nurture.

I was worried when I thought the video would read "Adults React to Children Who Committed Suicide" when it popped up on my notifications.

5:10 bless this man for having that kind of optimism, but that boy (now man) has been in prison for his entire life and has no idea what society even looks like let alone how to function in it. He went to prison for murder and has been around thugs and murderers his entire life. He should not be released ever because he will never be able to properly function and will end up hurting more people.