Originally Posted by Incognitas

I would like to point out that at the time of of the original incident the person concerned was 9 years old...At the time he was too young to be prosecuted and indeed the law would regard him as being a victim AT THAT TIME because no 9 year old should be able to obtain such easy access to a site.The company were negligent.. and any child of 9 is deemed as not having the ability to view matters as an adult.

What ever else has happened in the interim has no bearing on the case.

I have to say that when I first read this story I thought the same as everyone else.That is until I reread it and noted how old he was when the accident occured.

However I do think that perhaps the sum is a tad over the top when other people don't get similar treatment for similar occurences...It does seem unfair that other victims of negligence or crime don't recieve similar sums.