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Nikolas Cruz: 'We had this monster living under our roof and we didn’t know.'
Sun Sentinel ^ | February 18, 2018 | Paula McMahon

Posted on 02/18/2018 1:40:43 PM PST by billorites

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1 posted on 02/18/2018 1:40:43 PM PST by billorites
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To: billorites

Not really buying this.

This kid had major problems, what with the police having been called out there some 30 times or so.


2 posted on 02/18/2018 1:43:35 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: billorites

These two are not doing themselves any favors by granting so many interviews. They are not coming across all that well.
She, a health professional, him an ‘intelligence specialist’,and they allow this unvetted boy into their home.
They allow this kid with a gun collection to stay in their home, knowing that he still has the key to open the gun safe.
Not very smart at all.


3 posted on 02/18/2018 1:47:06 PM PST by lee martell
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You got that right. I heartily agree!


4 posted on 02/18/2018 1:48:13 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: billorites

“”””Nikolas Cruz was immature, quirky and depressed when James and Kimberly Snead took him into their Parkland home. But he was pleasant and seemed to be growing happier, they said. How the 19-year-old turned into a killer still baffles them. “We had this monster living under our roof and we didn’t know,””””


I am skeptical that the Snead’s had no idea Cruz was a monster.

But giving the Snead’s the benefit of the doubt, the Broward County Law Enforcement, Schools, Social Workers, Doctors, and anyone else in authority did a great cover-up of Cruz and undoubtedly many, many other monsters under their watch.


5 posted on 02/18/2018 1:51:53 PM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: billorites

They didn’t think anything was wrong but they took him to see a therapist?

Okie dok.


6 posted on 02/18/2018 1:52:12 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: billorites

This kid has austism .
They all knew.


7 posted on 02/18/2018 1:55:45 PM PST by ncalburt
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To: billorites

He was autistic. Unfortunately. Isolated, paranoid, made fun of, constantly alone, spiraling further and further out of control into dementia. His parents failed him, the school failed him, Social Services failed him, the local hospital psychiatric outpatient services failed him, the FBI failed him, local law enforcement failed him,. The boys should have been on psychiatric drugs. I knew this kid had Asperger’s, autism spectrum disorder the first time I saw his picture.


8 posted on 02/18/2018 1:55:52 PM PST by Hammerhead
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How anybody did not see this and get him treatment let alone how he obtained a firearm is beyond mind boggling.


9 posted on 02/18/2018 1:57:35 PM PST by Hammerhead
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To: billorites

The story is a lie .
The family friend arranged for him to move that house because he was austistic and he owned a rifle that she did not want in the house .


10 posted on 02/18/2018 1:59:44 PM PST by ncalburt
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If he is a sociopath he is capable of being charming when he needs to be. He is also capable of gaming they system by charming the people he needs.

If it is true that he was bringing pictures of dead animals to intimidate fellow students with, that the cops had been called numerous times to the home of this poor adoptive mother who died an untimely death from a very treatable disease, and that he had numerous incidents of violence and death threats to his credit. It is quite possible that this kid is a psychopath. If he claims that he only shot 17 people because the voices in his head told him to do it, well, it is unusual that he would have the focus to over a period of time smuggle a stash of weaponry into the school and be able to secure it without wandering off in fairyland at some point and give the whole thing away.


11 posted on 02/18/2018 2:00:37 PM PST by BlackAdderess (MAGA!)
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Andreas Brevik the Norwegian who killed 75 people with a rifle and a bomb spent 9 years planning his attach. (or so he claims!)

Also if you read about Brevik and what is coming out about this guy, they’re very similar!


12 posted on 02/18/2018 2:06:38 PM PST by Reily
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The psycho kid had been living with this family for only 3 months, and they didn't know him prior to that. I suppose it's possible they didn't know his history, but his mother (who died in Nov 2017) certainly did. She informed DCF invesigators of many instances of obviously disturbed behavior and her son's history of mental illness. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/parkland/florida-school-shooting/fl-school-shooting-nikolas-cruz-cutting-snapchat-20180216-story.html
13 posted on 02/18/2018 2:07:50 PM PST by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: lee martell

They are discrediting themselves.

If there were in such positions they should have been able to see the warning signs.

ANYONE who is observant can catch little glimpses into what people are like by their reactions to unexpected things that happen before they can recover quickly and cover them up.

Just a quick look of anger, a flash of the eyes, evasion.

There’s a thousands warning signs.


14 posted on 02/18/2018 2:08:08 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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.....”The Sneads’ SON had asked whether ‘his friend’ could move into their home last Thanksgiving..The Sneads quickly agreed ... they realized he was extremely depressed about his mother’s death.”.........

Cruz was their sons friend...so of course they thought this was a good thing to do. Parents naturally want to help kids they know are struggling ...in this case they likely felt no threat since their son was friends with Cruz.


15 posted on 02/18/2018 2:11:46 PM PST by caww
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To: Hammerhead

He had treatment. He chose to quit going.


16 posted on 02/18/2018 2:13:23 PM PST by ilovesarah2012 (I)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

Handlers?


17 posted on 02/18/2018 2:14:01 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: BlackAdderess

He came in with a duffle bag and backpack. He didn’t stash weapons.


18 posted on 02/18/2018 2:15:16 PM PST by ilovesarah2012 (I)
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To: ncalburt

My views exactly.


19 posted on 02/18/2018 2:16:24 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: Reily

Andreas Brevik believed he was a Knight’s Templar.

Did he have a string of domestic complaints against him? Death threats attributed to him? Violence? Dead animal pics??

I am no shrink, but I will bet you this kid is a psychopath. He told these people that he was due to inherit $800,000 and thought his adoptive mother was stealing from him because $2,000 went missing.


20 posted on 02/18/2018 2:20:29 PM PST by BlackAdderess (MAGA!)
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