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* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Dr. Skoda, knowing this, asked Jenny if she ever hurt any animals. She did--she tells him about the cat she killed.
* DeathOfAChild: The real beginning of the plot is the dead body of young Aaron Polanski.
* DeathOfAChild: The real beginning of the plot is the dead body of young Aaron Polanski.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Aaron Polanski's mother is alive after his death.
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* DaddyIssues: Jenny has both daddy and mommy issues (see PrimalScene), but her mother says her killing didn't start until her father went to prison.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Jenny's mother refers to her as her "best friend", even after she's murdered a little boy. She says this while whining and pleading not to have Jenny taken away from her and put into an issue institution, clearly caring more about wanting her around rather than getting her the help that she desperately needs.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Jenny's mother refers to her as her "best friend", even after she's murdered a little boy. She says this while whining and pleading not to have Jenny taken away from her and put into an issue institution, clearly caring more about wanting her around rather than getting her the help that she desperately needs.needs.
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* PatchedTogetherFromTheHeadlines: Loosely based on the murder of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger Jamie Bulger]] (the killers are gender-flipped) and on [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bell Mary Bell]].
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* UselessBystanderParent: Jenny's mother refers to her as her "best friend", even after she's murdered a little boy. She says this while whining and pleading not to have Jenny taken away from her and put into an issue institution, clearly caring more about wanting her around rather than getting her the help that she desperately needs.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: On the murder of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger Jamie Bulger]]. The killers are gender-flipped.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: On the murder of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger Jamie Bulger]]. The killers are gender-flipped.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Jenny's mother refers to her as her "best friend", even after she's murdered a little boy. She says this while whining and pleading not to have Jenny taken away from her and put into an issue institution, clearly caring more about wanting her around rather than getting her the help that she desperately needs.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: On the murder of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger Jamie Bulger]]. The killers are gender-flipped.needs.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: On the murder of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger Jamie Bulger]]. The killers are gender-flipped.
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Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green investigate the murder of a young boy, Aaron Polanski, who was found on a construction site with his trousers pulled down around his ankles and a AAA battery in his mouth. The medical examiner determines the boy died from a blow to the head but was not sexually assaulted. The police find two eyewitnesses to the crime, Tara Padden and Jenny Brandt - 13 and 10 years-old - but they soon begin to suspect they are lying. In fact, they come to believe they likely lured Aaron and killed him. Jenny seems to be the one who actually did the killing and after reviewing the facts, including Dr. Skoda's report, ADA [=McCoy=] wants the girl committed to a state mental hospital. The girl's lawyer counters with her own expert, Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, arguing the girl the girl can be treated outside of an institution.
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Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green investigate the murder of a young boy, Aaron Polanski, who was found on a construction site with his trousers pulled down around his ankles and a AAA battery in his mouth. The medical examiner determines the boy died from a blow to the head but was not sexually assaulted. The police find two eyewitnesses to the crime, Tara Padden and Jenny Brandt - 13 and 10 years-old - but they soon begin to suspect they the girls are lying. In fact, they come to believe they likely lured Aaron and killed him. Jenny seems to be the one who actually did the killing and after reviewing the facts, including Dr. Skoda's report, ADA [=McCoy=] wants the girl committed to a state mental hospital. The girl's lawyer counters with her own expert, Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, arguing the girl the girl can be treated outside of an institution.
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* AbusiveParents: Not physically, but of the {{Useless Bystander Parent}} variety. Jenny's mother has a steady stream of men coming into their apartment, has sex with them in her presence, talks to her like she's a same-age girlfriend rather than her ten year old child, and honestly doesn't get why this is ''not'' acceptable.
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* AbusiveParents: Not physically, but of the {{Useless Bystander Parent}} variety. Jenny's mother has a steady stream of men coming into their apartment, has sex with them in her presence, talks to her like she's a same-age girlfriend rather than her ten year old ten-year-old child, and honestly doesn't get why this is ''not'' acceptable.
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* KarmaHoudini: Jenny avoids being instutionalized and is implied to go right back to killing afterwards.
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* AbusiveParents: Not physically, but of the {{Useless Bystander Parent}} variety. Jenny's mother has a steady stream of men coming into their apartment, has sex with them in her presence, talks to her like she's a same-age girlfriend rather than her ten year old child, and honestly doesn't get why this is ''not'' acceptable.
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* AndThatsTerrible: Just in case you were thinking that maybe StrawmanHasAPoint [[invoked]]StrawmanHasAPoint (Olivet, in this case) about Jenny not belonging in a state hospital, Jenny is shown starting on her killing ways ''immediately after'' being freed.
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* UselessBystanderParent: Jenny's mother refers to her as her "best friend", even after she's murdered a little boy. She says this while whining and pleading not to have Jenny taken away from her and put into an issue institution, clearly caring more about wanting her around rather than getting her the help that she desperately needs.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Aside from being a murderer at only 10, Jenny's babysitter mentions "That kid knows more about sex than ''I'' do.".
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Aside from being a murderer at only 10, Jenny's babysitter mentions "That kid mentions, "She knows more about sex than ''I'' do.".
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* SexInASharedRoom: Jenny's mother has sex with "boyfriends" in front of her ten-year-old daughter, Jenny.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's never clear if in addition to witnessing her mother's promiscuity Jenny was also abused by any of her boyfriends. She staunchly denies it, but it's a likely reason for her hatred of males.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's never clear if in addition to witnessing her mother's promiscuity promiscuity, Jenny was also abused by any of her boyfriends. She staunchly denies it, but it's a likely reason for her hatred of males.
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* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Aside from being a murderer at only 10, Jenny's babysitter mentions "That kid knows more about sex that than ''I'' do."
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* AbusiveParents: Jenny's mother has a steady stream of men coming into their apartment, has sex with them in her presence, talks to her like she's a same-age girlfriend rather than her ten year old child, and honestly doesn't get why this is ''not'' acceptable.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's never clear if in addition to witnessing her mother's promiscuity Jenny was also abused by any of her boyfriends. She staunchly denies it, but it's a likely reason for her hatred of males.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's never clear if in addition to witnessing her mother's promiscuity Jenny was also abused by any of her boyfriends. She staunchly denies it, but it's a likely reason for her hatred of males.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: On the murder of [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger Jamie Bulger.Bulger]]. The killers are gender-flipped.
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* HereWeGoAgain: Jenny sidles up to a young boy and starts talking to him, [[VillainBall right in front of McCoy.]]
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* DumbIsGood: The thirteen-year-old Tara, who has been held back a few grades, covered up the murder but is portrayed much more sympathetically than the evil, irredeemable Jenny.
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* DaddyIssues: Jenny has both daddy and mommy issues (see PrimalScene), but her mother says her killing didn't start until her father went to prison.
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Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green investigate the murder of a young boy, Aaron Polanski, who was found on a construction site with his trousers pulled down around his ankles and a AAA battery in his mouth. The medical examiner determines the boy died from a blow to the head but was not sexually assaulted. The police find two eyewitnesses to the crime, Tara Padden and Jenny Brandt - 13 and 10 years-old - but they soon begin to suspect they are lying. In fact, they come to believe they likely lured Aaron and killed him. Jenny seems to be the one who actually did the killing and after reviewing the facts, including Dr. Skoda's report, ADA McCoy [=McCoy=] wants the girl committed to a state mental hospital. The girl's lawyer counters with her own expert, Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, arguing the girl the girl can be treated outside of an institution.
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Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green investigate the murder of a young boy, Aaron Polanski, who was found on a construction site with his trousers pulled down around his ankles and a AAA battery in his mouth. The medical examiner determines the boy died from a blow to the head but was not sexually assaulted. The police find two eyewitnesses to the crime, Tara Padden and Jenny Brandt - 13 and 10 years-old - but they soon begin to suspect they are lying. In fact, they come to believe they likely lured Aaron and killed him. Jenny seems to be the one who actually did the killing and after reviewing the facts, including Dr. Skoda's report, ADA McCoy wants the girl committed to a state mental hospital. The girl's lawyer counters with her own expert, Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, arguing the girl the girl can be treated outside of an institution.
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* AndThatsTerrible: Just in case you were thinking that maybe StrawmanHasAPoint (Olivet, in this case) about Jenny not belonging in a state hospital, Jenny is shown starting on her killing ways ''immediately after'' being freed.
* EnfantTerrible: The murderous and sadistic Jenny. Tara also helped to cover it up, but to a much lesser extent.
* HereWeGoAgain: Jenny sidles up to a young boy and starts talking to him, [[VillainBall right in front of McCoy.]]
* PrimalScene: Jenny has seen her mother and her mother's boyfriends having sex, which leads to her belief that it's okay to murder little boys.
* TheSociopath: Jenny has ''every single'' symptom of being one (coldness, ruthless, lack of emotion), and almost every single cause for being one (somewhat AbusiveParents, frontal lobe damage in her early life).
* UselessBystanderParent: Jenny's mother refers to her as her "best friend", even after she's murdered a little boy.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: On the murder of Jamie Bulger. The killers are gender-flipped.
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* AndThatsTerrible: Just in case you were thinking that maybe StrawmanHasAPoint (Olivet, in this case) about Jenny not belonging in a state hospital, Jenny is shown starting on her killing ways ''immediately after'' being freed.
* EnfantTerrible: The murderous and sadistic Jenny. Tara also helped to cover it up, but to a much lesser extent.
* HereWeGoAgain: Jenny sidles up to a young boy and starts talking to him, [[VillainBall right in front of McCoy.]]
* PrimalScene: Jenny has seen her mother and her mother's boyfriends having sex, which leads to her belief that it's okay to murder little boys.
* TheSociopath: Jenny has ''every single'' symptom of being one (coldness, ruthless, lack of emotion), and almost every single cause for being one (somewhat AbusiveParents, frontal lobe damage in her early life).
* UselessBystanderParent: Jenny's mother refers to her as her "best friend", even after she's murdered a little boy.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: On the murder of Jamie Bulger. The killers are gender-flipped.
