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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still dumbfounded how the murderer's parents were not charged i the Sandy Hook shooting. It's infuriating.

These shootings nearly never occur in a vacuum, and both parents are responsible for not taking warning signs seriously.

So many parents abdicate responsibility by thinking their son could never go these lengths. The denial is massive, and I'm sure there are some parents on DCUM who are denial about their kids issues.
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The Sandy Hook shooter killed his mother. He had not seen his father in two years. There was no one to charge.[/quote]

Was there any evidence that the dad had tried to get help for his son, during that time? He had massive mental health issues for far beyond those 2 years.[/quote]

Read the New Yorker article The Reckoning, or the state attorney’s exhaustive report on Adam Lanza.

Yes, his father and mother went to great lengths to get him diagnosed and treated. After he reached 18 he refused a lot of the interventions they encouraged and our system is not set up to force treatment on people when they do not meet the criteria for involuntary commitment. Many experts weighed in that the Sandy Hook shooting was not something that could have been predicted by the known facts, especially the very little that Peter Lanza could know given that his son had refused to communicate with him for two years preceding the event despite repeated attempts at contact. Arguably Nancy Lanza went too far in coddling him and his erratic behavior, and certainly she was negligent in allowing him access to firearms when he certainly had mental issues. She was tried and convicted by four .22 caliber rifle shots to the head at Adam’s hand. There is no legal theory under which Peter Lanza could be held criminally responsible for Adam’s behavior. If you read the interview with Andrew Solomon in the New Yorker, it is evident that unlike Jennifer Crumbley, Peter Lanza was anguished over his son’s issues and now lives in deep despair over the 27 murders his son perpetrated. [/quote]

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