On February 12, 1993, two-year-old James was abducted from a shopping center in Bootle, near Liverpool, by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. What followed shocked not only the UK but the entire world—a crime of unimaginable cruelty committed by children against a child.
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