They were like little children, they did not know right from wrong. Like any child they were capable of disobeying. They had no defense though, no way to understand right from wrong.
Are "innocent" adults the same as undeveloped children?
Its well neigh impossible for any of us---who know right from wrong---to even imagine what type of perspective a person who did not know right from wrong would see the world around them and how they would think.