I could say that I didn't say any such thing, but my point is that these "children" damn well knew what they were doing was wrong, and all the laws in the world wouldn't have changed a damn thing. Sterner concequences might have.
In any personal case, however, vigilante justice is far more acceptable (to me) than sending these Darwinian failures to "sensitivity class" and wasting hundred of thousands of dollars holding their hands for the next 50 years. Frankly, I'm appalled that we're at this stage at all. In a functioning society, these punks families would have taken then out the the town square and leathered them until they damn well knew right from wrong. A year's indentured servitude to the victim and her family wouldn't go far wrong either.