What a sad case.
Where were the parents in all that?
Maybe it was different times (but still not SO different) and that community might have had a lot of trust in each other (?)... but today the idea of letting 5 and 6-year-olds be at a playground alone, and for long enough and far enough out of eyesight of adults that one is even able to get the crap beaten out of her and end up freezing to death... just sounds incredibly absurd.
Empathy and all that might still be fairly early in development at that age, but come on... Power Rangers, Turtles, or anything else be damned, someone failed to teach one or more of those kids that harming other people around them is wrong.
