Babies killing babies

On February 12, 1993 a small boy was taken from a shopping mall in Liverpool by two 10 year old boys. Jamie Bulger walked away from his mother for only a second and Jon Venables took his hand and led him out of the mall with his friend Robert Thompson. They took Jamie on a walk for over 2 ½ miles, along the way, stopping every now and again to torture the poor little boy who was crying constantly for his mommy. Passerby’s questioned the two boys dragging the toddler. They responded by saying that Jamie was their little brother, or they said he was lost and were taking him to the police station. Finally, they stopped at a railway track where they brutally kicked him, threw stones at him, rubbed paint in his eyes, and pushed batteries in his mouth and up his anus. They then left his beaten small body on the tracks so a train could run him over; to cover-up their mess.
After the mutilated body was found, it was discovered that Jamie had died before being cut in half on the tracks. Surveillance cameras caught the two boys walking away with Jamie and a nearby resident recognized the boys. Both were charged with abduction and murder. A judge ordered anonymity for the two young murderers for the rest of their lives.

Why is this relevant to my blog on current events?

On 2 March 2010, the Ministry of Justice revealed that Jon Venables had been returned to prison for an unspecified violation of the terms of his licence of release. Justice Secretary Jack Straw stated that Venables was returned to prison because of "extremely serious allegations", and stated that he was "unable to give further details of the reasons for Jon Venables's return to custody, because it was not in the public interest to do so." Following tabloid speculation, Straw repeated that premature disclosure of details of the reasons for Venables' return to custody are not in the public interest, and that the "motivation throughout has been solely to ensure that some extremely serious allegations are properly investigated and that justice is done".

Straw is scheduled to meet Bulger's mother Denise Fergus, who has said that she is angry that the Parole Board did not tell her that Venables had been returned to prison. Denise Fergus has called for Venables' anonymity to be removed if he faces criminal charges over the allegations. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Justice stated that there is a worldwide injunction against publication of either killers' location or new identity.

In an interview on 7 March 2010, the Children's Secretary Ed Balls warned that some parts of the UK media were coming close to breaking the law, and stated: "If we responded to the desire for people to know the facts in public in a way which ends up prejudicing a legal case, we would look back and think we made very irresponsible decisions” (Wikipidia).