Twenty years may seem like a long time, but for the heinousness of the crime, it's not that long. If he wants to do his preaching, there are plenty of people behind bars he can preach to.

No such initiative has been attempted in recent much larger white collar financial crime cases where there were allegations of accounting fraud, bankruptcy, thousands of people out of work, billions of dollars lost to investors -- none of which has occurred or is alleged here.

We believe this was a hate crime,

the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

These kids are already hard. They don't need to be made harder. The issue is softening them up. They need to learn how to care about life again. They've lost that. That's what we need to give back to them.