Posted on 08/02/2025 6:28:27 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The deranged 15-year-old accused of slaughtering all but one of his family members in their ritzy lakeside Washington mansion was kept isolated from the world and raised under a “rigid, militant survivalist ideology,” his lawyer claims.
Mark and Sarah Humiston drove their future killer son to the heinous crime after hammering him and his siblings with years of religious extremism and government paranoia, according to court documents filed last week.
Prosecutors say their oldest son — whose identity has been kept under wraps — shot his parents, brothers Benjamin, 13, Joshua, 9, and sister Katheryn, 7, in the middle of the night in October. His 11-year-old sister survived the bloodbath by playing dead.
The Humisons were allegedly deeply paranoid of the government and medical professionals, especially surrounding the COVID-19 vaccine, leading to what the defense team painted as an isolating lifestyle.
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Lots of kids are abused but don’t kill their parents and siblings. All he had to do was walk away. Now he’ll never know freedom.
We’ll never know, WILL WE? the kid murdered his parents and siblings. The article is filled with derogatory slants against the parents, proving this is a crap story and shameful to those perpetuating it
Justification of mass murder.
Wow, no offense, but you’re a complete idiot. Do you want the newspaper (the NY Post is a known right-leaning publication, btw) to NOT tell you what the defendent’s lawyers are submitting to the courts? Do you want them to lie and tell you they submitted a defense that you can agree with? How weird.
So the victims are to blame?
Prayers to the family...
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
offense taken.
Translation: The gossips in the neighborhood and in the family have spoken.
On the other hand...
>Even the boy’s maternal grandmother sided with him, telling attorneys that Sarah Humiston “was abusive and demeaning to the children.” The woman allegedly told cops she had previously threatened to report the Humiston parents if their abuse did not stop.<
The parents can't speak in their own defense. But, even if they were physically abusive, this teen murdered his siblings, too, and tried to blame his murdered brother. Thankful one child survived... but wishing they all did.
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