Do we all deserve a second chance

Jon Venables has now become the epitome of the devil. This man now just needs a face and that should be enough for him to be easily buried alive or burnt at a stake or be bled to death. The media has once again done what it does best in the past, cornered an individual so brutally that his own mother would have wished that he had died in her womb. Agreed, that Venables had committed a crime that defies all innocence attributed to 10 year-olds. It was unthinkable, society could not come to terms with it. James Bulger's mother can never forgive him and nor can we. But should we even try to understand what led him to commit his most recent crime? Can a 10 year old, with a fresh identity be cleansed and purged of his sins and be actually made conducive to society again? Have we devised methods to clean the unclean spirit and give a person a new identity?