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Jesse Harding Pomeroy was a sociopath, a serial killer. Though he killed only two people, he brutally tortured many others during his short time of freedom and would probably have killed many more if not stopped. And he was only 14. Despite his age and his relatively low body count, he took great pleasure in hurting his victims and then slaughtering them without a thought.The fact that Jesse Pomeroy started killing at such a tender age isnt as unusual as most people think, even for the late 19th century, when he was born. Children who kill have been around as long as there have been children.In the mid18th century, 10yearold William York was sentenced to life service in the British navy for killing a 5yearold housemate who wet the bed the two children shared. York tortured the girl first, slicing her wrist down to the bone, doing the same to her elbow and then opening her thigh with the knife. The judge, commuting the recommended death sentence, presumed the harsh treatment in store for the boy in the navy, then heavily infused with convicts, was sufficient punishment.In 1847, a 12yearold named William Allnut was convicted of murdering his grandfather by arsenic poisoning and injuring many other members of his family unfortunate enough to have used the tainted sugar bowl. He was sentenced to hang, but because of his youth, was spared and spent the rest of his life in a British prison.

 

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