Who knows if those kids were completely rotten or if their parents are bad.... What they did is inexcusable, and I hope they're squirming from all this attention, but they shouldn't be written off as bad seeds or threatened to be killed (c'mon that's ridiculous). Even the best parents' well behaved kids can do stupid things, I stole a pair of reading glasses when I was five, thinking it could replace the pair I wore (I broke them goofing around). I lied about how my glasses miraculously changed until I was all lied out and had to face the wrath of my grandpa for lying AND stealing, then he told me I was going to go to jail.
These kids need to learn big time. I suggest community service, no cell phones, no internet, no life until it sinks in their skulls.