I'm going to take a punt here.
As abhorrent as her actions were I'm struggling to believe your average 14 year old goes around punching pensioners.
With that in mind, I wonder if I could spend a day living her life, let alone 14 years of it.
That's no excuse, and she needs to be properly dealt with, but in doing so is that really going to get to the root cause?
I have my doubts.
It's very easy to be judge, jury and executioner.
But it's hard not to think there's a bigger picture here, and going 'Daily Mail' at the child is just storing up the problem for the next time, without dealing with the issues that may have caused this assault.
I have no answers, I just don't think it's as simple as:-
throw away the key = clear conscious.
It's comments like that...that clearly show how pathetic our society has become. Every criminal now has a sob story of how hard done by they are, it's societies fault, I've got this or that condition that suddenly only appeared in the last 15 years, my mum doesn't love me, blah blah fvcking blah. Get in the real world mate....that attitudes like yours have created a disgusting mitigation by scum like her are no longer responsible for their actions and it would be a travesty to even think about punishing them. Go and ask the old lady she punched in the face or the old lady's family if they give a flying fvck about any of your 'bigger picture'. Bottom line the horrible little shit punched an old lady in the face for no reason other than wanting to get home and asking 2 scumbags refusing to pay their fare to stop causing the delay to the bus. Would you care about the 'bigger picture' if she punched your mother?