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By that reasoning, there are an awful lot of people with disordered thought processes. Even if you limit the criteria to belief in an entity that can be absolutely proven to have been invented by a specific person/s or group/s, that's still a worryingly large number. (I was going to mention Scientologists en masse, but I don't want to risk bringing deity-based religion into the thread)
I do agree that the girls need psych help rather than decades in prison, of course. Unfortunately, politics aside, after the amount of coverage the case has had, people will want someone to be punished in some way.
There are many such people indeed, but the special circumstances in this case is that the girls are so young.
Its not just the media coverage in itself\; elected judges and DAs seek out such publicity to ensure their re-election and/or advancement to even higher political office.