James Bulger was a boy from Kirkby,
England, who was murdered on 12 February 1993, at age 2. He was
abducted, tortured and murdered by two 10-year-old boys, Robert
Thompson (born 23 August 1982) and Jon Venables (born 13 August 1982).
Bulger disappeared from the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, near
Liverpool, while accompanying his mother. His mutilated body was found
on a railway line two-and-a-half miles (4 km) away in Walton, two days
after his murder. Thompson and Venables were charged on 20 February
1993 with Bulger's abduction and murder.