Mary Bell Case Summary

In March of 1944, 14 year old George Stinney Jr. was arrested for the murder of two girls who were found brutally beaten to death. Stinney was arrested for these murders with no parents present, allegations of police brutality were used against him, and in the end they truly needed someone to blame for these murders. George Stinney Jr. had no chance of ever seeing the outside world, with him being African- American and the two victims being caucasian, he was the best scapegoat for this case. Stinney Jr. was later prosecuted for the murders of these two women, in less than 10 minutes, and then was out to death in June later that year. It was not until 70 years later that Stinney was later exonerated for these murders. Stinney was never given

Bell did not commit these murders by herself, but she was the only one to return back to Howe’s body and carve an “M” onto his stomach, and mutilated other parts of his body. Mary Bell was originally never convicted for the murder of Brown’s death until it was later linked to Howe’s death in 1968, and at that time she was convicted of two counts of manslaughter. During Bell’s trial she was examined by a court- appointed psychiatrist, who had described Bell of having symptoms of psychopathy tendencies, and she was a “grave risk” to other children. Bell was sentenced to 12 years of prison and was granted anonymity, giving her opportunity to start over with a completely new identity. Today she still lives in the U.K. with a daughter and grandchild, leaving her past crimes in the past. It is to be wondered, if her parents background had created her psychopathic tendencies. Her mother was a prostitute and was rarely home, while her father who was not present her in life. But the man she had believed to be her father, was a criminal and was later arrested for an armed robbery. Did seeing her parents act in the way they did, and not being present, build a path for her to follow in their

For these two murders, he was only sentenced for five years due to being a juvenile and being tried as one. Bosket had came from a family of murders, his father has killed two people as well, and his mother was completely absent from his life, leaving him no chance but to follow in his father’s footsteps. Bosket has the reputation of being a violent child, and he prided himself on becoming just like his father one day. It was his crimes, that pushed for the laws to be changed for juveniles to be tried as adults for specific crimes, such as murder. The Juvenile Offender Act of 1978 was later pushed through after reading the report on Bosket’s five years maximum sentence. After Bosket was released for the two murders, he later was arrested for assault on several different people, on two different occasions. With three convictions on his records, he was facing a sentencing for 25 years to life in prison, and with the idea in his head that we would live the rest of his life in prison, once he got in, he decided to stab a correction officer. It seems in this situation, Bosket believed he had no other purpose in life, than to kill and commit crimes. He saw his father be dragged in and out of his life because of the crimes he was committing, so somewhere in that time, he believed that he could never be anything other than what his father was. Was it the abandonment of his