Posted on 12/01/2008 5:36:21 PM PST by JoeProBono
That’s what came to my mind when I heard this story.
Cindy Anthony says Casey is a wonderful, caring mother.
It’s actually quite believable.
I think if you follow the Naruto cartoon series you’d find the statement about 1000 beatings or canings being the limit.
I’d have to go with some kind of sexual abuse here... the tip-off is that the boy was reportedly being spanked and treated ‘too harshly’ by both his father and the father’s wife (who’s strangely absent from the story, it doesn’t even mention if she’s his mother), but the people he killed were the father and the renter. I could see how he’d kill the renter if he was going after the father and the wife and didn’t want to leave witnesses or thought the guy would get in the way, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Plus, despite the allegations of physical abuse, it was only the female in the household that he didn’t kill.
I dunno. He’s 8. If he’s been keeping a log for three years, that means he started at age 5. How many people start keeping logs at that age?
Somehow the story just sounds a little too far-fetched to me. I think this kid is good at embellishing.
His father could have overdone it nonetheless.
She was in Alabama I believe.
Kids can be psychopaths.
It's the amps, not the volts, that will kill you.
If I ever have the misfortune to meet this kid, I’m going to smile and say “How do you do?”
If he tells me to buy him an ice cream cone, I’ll ask, “What flavor and how many scoops?”
How many times do we hear mothers of suspected criminals say they "know" their son/daughter didn't do it? Friends and neighbors describe criminal suspects as being nice people.
As to grandmothers, they all shouldn't be painted with the same broad brush.
Grandparents aren't clones of other grandparents, for heaven's sake. We've all had individual personalities throughout our lives.
Scaredy cat!
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