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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“The 6-year-old boy who allegedly shot his elementary school teacher earlier this year will not be criminally charged, Newport News, Virginia, Commonwealth's Attorney Howard Gwynn told CNN affiliate WTKR.”
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Of COURSE the kid shouldn't be criminally charged.  He should stay in some kind of an institution for the rest of his life though.  I'm still waiting for them to charge his parents criminally.  And I'm still waiting for them to charge the administrators who either ignored the issue or who openly refused to implement a safety plan.  They ALL need to spend time in jail.  [/quote]
I thought it was interesting that the child can’t be part of the juvenile system either. How is the community being assured that he is being rehabilitated? This child needs to be in intensive treatment and it should be mandatory and state monitored. [/quote]

This child likely cannot be rehabilitated. There are some medical conditions where there is a biologically (brain) based issue, including complete inability to feel any empathy.  It may be possible to achieve that he can live in society without killing someone, but it’s going to be difficult and require intense inpatient commitment.  There are only a few locations in the US equipped to deal with this. If not addressed appropriately, he will escalate his violence as he gets older.[/quote]

I have absolutely no idea if the child can be socialized properly.  But, I would never claim that he could not be rehabilitated without knowing a whole lot more.  I can say that the parent has shown imcompetence by having a gun within reach of the child.[/quote]

He had a years-established pattern of attacking children, trying to kill his kindergarten teacher via choking, and while he may or may not be DCUM-level ‘gifted’ or ‘twice exceptional’ or, poor bunny, a victim of SPD or ODD or any other similar reality-avoidant diagnosis, when it came to him trying to kill Abigail Zwerner, he showed astonishing, methodical planning and cunning for a 6 year old, in terms of obtaining the gun, getting it to his class, and avoiding having it taken.

He can’t be rehabilitated. He can hopefully be prevented from killing or maiming. But that also can’t happen since a majority of people will think, like, you, dawwwww he’s just 6!  He should be institutionalized for many, many years. I have a child who was threatened by one with a gun and am more liberal than probably anyone on this thread with the voting past to match, and I wish to god we could have a reality-based conversation on the impossibility of turning back time and ‘fixing’ sociopath/psychopaths who engage in violence in single-digit ages, or, separately, fixing the thoroughly pulverized brains of addicts who’ve used fent or meth and cannot function near others. We can’t have these conversations at all because we largely don’t want to redistribute public monies for institutions, instead diverting everything to policing and other after the fact mop-up ‘solutions’ that still produce the trauma in the first instance. It’s such a damned shame.

We all know he’s going to reoffend and with more ‘success.’ Stop lying, Pollyanna.[/quote]

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