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Maria to the police; after that the Rossis despised her, rubbish was dumped in her garden, and Maria threw stones at her, called her a "fucking bitch" in the street, smeared feces on her house and committed other vandalism, stole her money, and mistreated her dog, Chum. In 1987, Phillips began asking to be moved to another house, but her request was not granted. In 1992, after Maria
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Details of the crime were first made public at the sentencing, which followed by less than three weeks the start of the trial of two ten-year-old boys for murdering two-year-old James Bulger. It contributed to a moral panic in the UK concerning young killers, who, the sociologist
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