The brutal murder of a two-year-old boy makes us reflect on childhood evil.
To this day there remain many questions
about the motivations for his cruel actions.
Destiny brought the two together,
and formed a destructive friendship.
They were always involved in problems
due to attacks on many of their classmates.
One, harassed by his own family,
will assume violence as part of his life.
The other, without a stable home to grow up in,
will project his hostility towards another being.
They found their chosen one by chance,
they took him by the hand through the corridor.
Without predicting what their intention was,
many people saw them in the streets.
Through tricks they caught their attention,
but no one tried to stop them.
Who would suspect those two children?
Who would imagine what they were going to do to him?
They beat and disfigured his prey
using stones and a steel rod.
Believing him dead, they covered his face
and left his body on the train tracks.
They managed to arrest them and take them to court.
At their young age they distinguished good from evil,
the resource of doli incapax could not be used.
They were found guilty for their actions.
The sentence ended up being benign.

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