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...teaching of reading. They have little doubt that some parents can teach some three-year-olds and four-year-olds to read-but why should they? "No one has really given any sound reason for doing so," says Psychologist William Kessen of Yale's Child Study Center. Myra Woodruff, recently retired chief of New York State's Bureau of Child Development and Parent Education, believes that the real motivation for many parents to teach their tots is that "it represents status...
...MYRA DECHAINE Los Angeles...
...ordered the two defendants to stand. "Ian Brady," he said, addressing the first prisoner, "you have been found guilty of three calculated, cruel and cold-blooded murders. I pass the only sentence which the law now allows: three concurrent sentences of life imprisonment." Then turning to the other defendant, Myra Hindley, 23, the judge decreed her two concurrent life sentences and one seven-year sentence...
...victims -Lesley Anne Downey, 10. The whimpering and protests were alleged by the prosecution to be a recording of the last moments in Lesley's life. Also among Brady's belongings were nude photographs of the little girl. Police also found a picture of Myra on the very spot on the moor where police dug up the body of John Kilbride...
...emotion when even the most harrowing details were being discussed?" The all-male jury deliberated two hours and 22 minutes before returning with verdicts that demanded the maximum sentence. Britain's historical maximum penalty-death by hanging -had been abolished by Parliament during the time Brady and Myra Hindley were in prison awaiting trial...