Submitted by Verbinator - February 23, 2007 at 10:43 am -0500
I have to admit, I'm usually on board with the "blame the parents" crowd for this kind of behavior. But if this woman's statement is true (and I get a feeling that it could be true ... I'm a parent of an older stepchild whose behavior aggravates me at times ... but nothing like this, not even on the same planet with this), then it sounds like the father and the step-mom have tried to deal with this as good parents.

Anyone who has lived with teenage children knows that in a sense, they are like guided missiles in orbit around a distant moon. Once launched into their teenage years, you have to hope that the "programming" they recieved in the form of love, reaffirment, morals, ethics, values, etc. will keep them on course, or at least keep them from self-destructing until their brains have the upper hand on their hormones again.

Even so, the kid sounds like a sociopath in training to be a psychopath. God forgive us if we allow a defense attorney to get him off on an insanity charge.

Perhaps medication and therapy may help his situation, but I foresee a long career spent in solitary confinement. Perhaps the NEXT murder he commits (after he gets out of prison and forgets to take his medication for a while) will take place in a death penalty state.

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