the worst is true: MA teacher raped before being murdered by 14 year old student

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298. we are all lectured that we "don't understand brain development"

but the lecturer provides no evidence that he/she has any understanding of brain development either. Nor does the lecturer back up claims that the vast majority of child killers don't kill again with either numbers or the types of killings.

Waste of time to read that one. Just empty claims; no facts. The rest of us at least are looking at the facts:

That a 14 year old, who is old enough to understand that real-life killing is not a video game and does have real life consequences, deliberately chose to arm himself with a box cutter, deliberate chose to bring a ski mask to hide his face and gloves to hide his fingerprints, and deliberately chose to bring extra clothes to change into after the one's he was wearing got bloody --into school with the intent to kill.

That the 14 year followed through with his plan, raped the teacher who was trying to help him, slashed her throat, changed his clothes, got rid of his bloody clothes, hid her body in a recycle bin, dragged it into the woods, raped her corpse with a branch, and buried it under leaves. Stole her credit card and underpants. Left a note stating "I hate you all" folded by her body.

Returned to the recycle bin. Went out for a hamburger. And then went out to the movies.

This was not lack of impulse or lack of control. This was not an undeveloped brain of somebody who didn't understand the consequences of his actions.

He was found not because he used the credit card, but because like most people out there, he didn't realize that you have to remove the battery from your cell phone if you don't want to be found by pinging.

Those are the facts. This was a premeditated, brutal and deviant rape and murder. Not an impulse from a moment of rage. He hates everybody. He chose to kill a beautiful young teacher who was beloved by all who knew her, thereby inflicting as much pain as possible on as many of the people he hates as possible.