Posted on 04/21/2024 6:45:23 AM PDT by texanyankee
Or the Grandfather killed the man and convinced the child that it was him instead.
But at 7 years old you don't use such a label. Of course he needs very serious psychiatric intervention. It's also essential that someone look into his home life...and parents...very closely. You look for abuse and neglect...exposure to abnormal experiences. You also look into the possibility of some kind of genetic issue effecting thinking and behavior.
That is a very good insight.
Anybody who can kill another human being needs to be treated as an adult. I don’t care what the age.
pure evil criminal...he knew right from wrong...he still does..
My theory is that once the kid knew his grandpa had a gun stashed in the pickup, the kid decided one evening he was gonna sneak out & use it on someone - just like in a video game.
Once he had it he started checking for unlocked RVs nearby & unfortunately that victim didnt lock his door.
I don't think electroshock therapy will help with this one, pre-frontal lobotomy might be worth a try. But I doubt that anything short of an execution would really be an effective treatment.
Seven year old boys are known to do stupid things.Seven year old boys who are being badly abused....and/or neglected...are known to do *very* stupid things.
The issue of concern is not the murder he committed when he was seven - looks like he gets a free pass for that.
The problem is how many folks is he going to kill over the rest of his life. And I have no confidence that the psychiatric community can fix him.
Yes,it certainly seems possible that he will turn out to be a nightmare when he reaches adulthood. I suppose he could now be executed...or imprisoned for life to avoid that. Otherwise the only other option is to attempt to make sure he as an upbringing conducive to making a respectable adult...and wait and see.
Or the kid came back and was noticeably different, or showed too much interest in the case, or something else clued him in, and when he checked the gun he saw it had been fired.
Chances are the family knew something was up with the kid. Kitchen knives could have been disappearing and turning up under his bed he could have been caught torturing animals or hurting relatives. He wasn’t this screwed up and nobody knew.
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