Do you ever wonder what goes on in a child’s mind? Do you ever wonder if as a parent, you could be affecting your child? Parents, peers, home environment, entertainment, some of many things that can affect a child’s mindset. For Jesse Pomeroy and Mary Bell in particular, had a completely different mindset of a child. Whether or not, Pomeroy and Bell wanted to live this lifestyle, they became something unexpected. Jesse Pomeroy and Mary Bell were both child murderers considering how different their backgrounds were.
Jesse Pomeroy was born on November 29, 1859 in Charlestown, Boston, MA. Since the beginning, Pomeroy was revolted by others, including his father due to a defect in his right eye. At school, he was bullied by kids bigger than him and in return he bullied kids smaller than him. Pomeroy was not one to
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be social, he spent most of his time reading “dime novels”. They were novels based off blood, sex, war, and battles. As a child, he only received comfort from his mother, Ruth Ann Pomeroy. He was ignored by his brother and brutally beaten by his father. His mother always believed that if Pomeroy was no longer bullied, he wouldn’t bully. So when he started killing small animals, she thought it was a sign of sadness. In late 1871, children began to suffer vicious beatings and some were sexually assaulted by a boy bigger than them. This “boy” became known as the Red Devil, descriptions of him went up, but nobody caught on that it was Pomeroy. Nobody but his mother, and when she noticed the boy described was her son, she moved her family to South Boston. But shortly after moving to South Boston, more children had began being tortured. This time, a good description was given, when a victim noticed Pomeroy’s defected right eye. Pomeroy was arrested and because he was so young, he was sent to a State Reform School for the term of six years. Having Pomeroy away brought relief to the people of South Boston, but not for long. Pomeroy’s mother with her ways was able to get Pomeroy released only months later. In March of 1874, Katie Curran went missing after she had gone out to buy a notebook. After making some discoveries, the last place she had been seen was the Pomeroy’s shop. Since Jesse worked there, the shop was searched, and Jesse was interrogated, but nothing was found. Weeks after Katie disappeared, four-year-old Horace Millen was found dead on the beach. Jesse was found the clear murderer of Horace Millen. Pomeroy was found with blood on his clothes, scratches and his boots matched the imprints left on the sand on the beach. Pomeroy was sentenced to death in prison in the Massachusetts State Prison, in Charlestown. There are a variety of reasons to why Pomeroy tortured many and killed two. He could have suffered a mental illness, he was the product of a broken family or there was plenty of physical and mental abuse. As well as because he was bullied, he felt anger or the need to hurt others because they lived a better live than him. He could have also been reenacting to all the violence he read in novels. Mary Bell was born May 26, 1957 in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
Bell grew up in a nightmare. Her mother, Betty McCrickett was a mentally, unstable alcoholic and prostitute. According to Gitta Sereny in her book, Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell, Betty would force Bell to take part in prostitution. Others say Betty had tried killing Mary making it seem like an accident. There were suspicions that Betty suffered from Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy, which could explain why she acted the way she did with her daughter. Due to the bad home environment, it could have possibly affected Bell’s personality. At school, she had an unpredictable and violent behavior. Even though she was violent, nobody did anything to stop it from continuing and it eventually got out of proportion. May of 1968, Bell strangled a four-year-old. This was ruled an accident and no act was taken. Later, Bell and her friend Norma Joyce Bell broke into a nursery and vandalised it, but police considered it a prank. July of 1968, both Mary Bell and Norma Bell strangled a three-year-old. Eventually both deaths were linked and both girls were charged with two counts of
manslaughter. Both Jesse Pomeroy and Mary Bell grew up in non-loving homes, full of violence. They weren’t growing up in homes meant for children. This could have been the very reason of why both children became child murderers. This is possibly the only reason they are connected because they are from two different parts of the world. Their traditions, cultures, and the way they learned could have been different, but not their home environments. Jesse Pomeroy and Mary Bell were both child murderers considering how different their backgrounds were. Although there is no exact answer to why he caused so much harm, it doesn’t take away from the fact that more and more crimes like this are being committed. One could only ask if anything could have changed Pomeroy’s and Bell’s actions.
Jesse Woodson James was born on September 5, 1847 in Western Missouri. Jesse’s father, a Baptist minister, Robert Salle James and his mother Zerelda Cole. Jesse had one whole brother Frank James and other half and step siblings. Jesse’s father died when he was a young boy and his mother remarried more than once. When Jesse was 17 he married a young girl, who was also his first cousin, named Zerelda Mimms. They had 2 children, Jesse Jr. and Mary. (O’Brien)
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the police and the ignorance of the courts. The idea that a parent would kill
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