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Old 04-26-2006, 12:58 PM   #10 (permalink)
Rodney
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Originally Posted by lindalove
I mean evil to the core. Without the hope of rehabilitation. The kind of kids that not only you wouldn't want to have your kids or pets around, but you yourself would think twice about letting them out of your sight? What do you think? Then there's those two kids in England I think that took the toddler and killed him. Kind of like that movie The Good Son, with Macaulay Culkin.

Me, I've known of a couple of kids who tortured animals and did Satanic things with them. From what I know, they grew up to be adults who've spent time in prison.
I think it's both. Some people are built with some of the circuitry missing, or connected wrong. Put these people in a bad environment, and you've got potential serial killer. Put them in a good environment and... maybe you don't have a normal person, but they have a better chance of staying out of trouble.

Also, I read that brain trauma from injuries, blows, abuse -- aside from any psychological ramifications -- can actually cause children to lose the ability to control violent impulses. So in a case where an abused child is violent, you have to ask the question: is he violent because he's acting out his rage, or is he violent because Daddy's beating actually damaged his brain. Or both? The case I read about was a 15-year-old kid who was entirely normal and a good student, but then became violent and nearly uncontrollable after getting beat around the head. They identified the damaged areas with brain scans.

I have run across one kid recently who might fall into the pure evil category, except that he seemed just as sad as he was evil. He'd never had a chance in life -- junkie mother who kept him around for the welfare check, her abusive boyfriend who worked him over regularly with the business end of a belt, nothing to relate to in life but a game console. 50 percent of the time he was causing other kids gleeful hell and attacking kids smaller than him, and the other 50 percent he spent miserable because nobody liked him. You could point out that he was causing his own problems 'till the cows came home -- he was a very smart 10-year-old -- but he couldn't or wouldn't see it.

So was he purely in bad shape because of inattention and abuse? Or did heredity or Mom's drug habit (I'm sure she didn't stop shooting up during pregnancy) have something to do with it? Or was his brain damaged by beating? Or all of the above? I really feel for this kid, because he's pretty much doomed if things don't change for him.

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