Mercy is sometimes a very difficult thing. It is sometimes a mark of a sort of strength that I can’t even imagine where it comes from.

Here we have the parents of a toddler asking prosecutors to show leniency toward the twelve year old perpetrator.

He beat their baby to death with a baseball bat, and they are asking for the prosecutors not to prosecute, and if they do, to prosecute as a minor.

I don’t know where they find the strength.