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Do you remember the name of this syndrome. I distinctly remember the perpetrator and his unusual ""lopped" looking ears.
Has anyone had experience with this? Personal or professional?
There is no "syndrome". Although minor physical abnormalities or combinations thereof have been associated with or linked to certain psychiatric disorders you can't diagnose or charge anyone based on their ears or tongue and plenty of perfectly normal healthy people have minor physical abnormalities so its a slippery slope to go sledding on. But its a great way to pigeonhole people as nascent criminals or mental cases.
He was only convicted of 2nd degree murder. How is that possible? What he did to that 4 year old was horrific.
I know this guy was young when he committed this crime but it was a particularly depraved and shocking act. It doesn't give me the warm fuzzies that this guy will be out walking the streets. Hope and pray that he has been reformed.
My argument is that in the US children can be tried as adults. My view is you are 18 you are now an adult no exceptions. If you are less than you get tried as as a child no exceptions. Just like age requirements for everything else including a drivers license to getting drafted for military service.The 13 year old, regardless of what you think of him was tried as an adult.
Isn't this the person who smashed the child in the head with 3 large boulders and then rammed a tree stick up the victims rectum. Seems to me he should be in jail for much longer time. What's to prevent a sick perverted person from taking revenge and doing it again. The recidivism rate is too high @70%.
Correct. The action of this man ( while still a teen) are now time served. He paid his price. He has had 28 years of isolation and re-storation of some of his accountability.
In his statement at 13 he played the ( I was a victim of being bullied..."twern't my fault!)
At 43 he has shown that his maturity is - I was accountable then. My rage was mine to come to terms with. I chose to take out on another the very acts that I endured ( figuratively speaking). I became the Bully.
Unlike others I make no arguement for or against this sentencing. The end result is that he did not get paroled , he served his time. He is going to have a challenge to integrate back into society....
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