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Originally Posted by GGG
I have the other reaction when someone this young kills someone. Society failed this 13 year old kid. Yeah he needs to be locked away because he's likely unredeemable but society failed him.
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What do we do with kids who are raised in a toxic environment? Take them away from their parents? OK. Well, we don't have orphanages anymore, and we know how the residential school system turned out. Taking native children away from their homes is a highly politicized issue. How many people are out there are offering to adopt badly socialized 7-year olds, maybe with fetal alcohol syndrome? Not many - and hats off to people who do. But you can't even get Canadians to adopt newborn infants from disadvantaged parents with substance abuse issues (they'd rather spend tens of thousands of dollars and adopt from China), let alone older children or youths.