Enterprise - you are spot on. I’m with you. I’d protect my daughter too. Grown up psychopaths do not start out as sweet little kids who suddenly turn. They hone their bullying and abusive behavior from youth.
The other one was more serious. He was 14 years old, in class with 6th graders. He joked that he was the only one in his family that wasn't in jail. We were all deathly afraid of him. One day he told a male teacher "F... you," and the teacher slapped him across the face. Thankfully, nothing happened to the teacher. Today he would probably be arrested.
About a year later, when we were in 7th grade, my best friend had said something that the bully thought was disrespectful. So one day, on the way to school, the bully held a knife to my friend's throat, and walked him to school. This went on every day for a while. It got the point that my friend would greet the bully by name, and the routine would be repeated. Finally the bully tired and it was over. The last I heard of him, he was doing life without parole for murder.
Agreed.
And there are NOT always two sides to every story. The truth is the frickin’ TRUTH.
Now we don’t know who is telling the truth here yet, but it is NOT a matter of assessing the balance between one relative statement and another.
Damn but I get tired of everyone having a meaningful version based on their income, skin-color, past grievance-status, and how and with whom they utilize their pee-pees.