The parents are to blame as well for raising a child that would beat and kick a defenseless human being.
Every generation we are invaded by savages in the guise of young males, and it is the adults job to civilize them. As of late we seem to have more adults that don't want to bother.
******************************************************** Laura Simpson didn't. Her son, Justin Brumfield, is serving an 11-year prison stretch in California.
In August 2005, Brumfield and William Orantes, both 19, beat 56-year-old Ernest Adams with bats. Adams emerged from a coma three weeks later with dents in his skull, permanent scars and no vision in one eye, the Los Angeles Times reported. Orantes is serving a three-year sentence.
Simpson, a sixth-grade teacher, says she is still tormented by her son's actions and wonders if her son's irritability was more than typical teenage moodiness.
She has other questions: Was her son, a natural follower, just succumbing to peer pressure? Was he that into "Bumfights"? Did he see the fear in Adams' eyes when he raised the bat to strike him?
In a sad irony, she had adopted him; his mother was a homeless drug addict, a revelation he had learned not long before the beating and which his attorney used to explain his rage.
As I've always believed - Nature trumps Nurture. This kid had "bad" blood. Bad blood will tell.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear.