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In reply to the discussion: Adam Lanza’s Father, in First Public Comments, Says ‘You Can’t Get Any More Evil’ [View all]Dorian Gray
(13,850 posts)murdered 27 people, I would have to face facts and call that act evil. That's what his father did.
Reading the 8 pages of the article was painful. It was the first time I felt sympathy for Adam, actually. It painted a bleak picture of Adam's life and his many diagnoses. He was troubled and disordered. On top of being diagnosed with Aspergers, which made assimilation into high school difficult for him, he had many other troubling problems, and the article speculated that he may have had psychosis.
The child did NOT receive the help he needed. The father makes that clear. And the mother ended up giving into his whims on a daily basis to make things "easier."
When he started having violent fantasies that he wrote about in school, there needed to be an intervention.
That is clear to me after reading this article. And I believe that was his father's intention. To help people to NOT ignore the problems. To face them.
It's inconceivable for me to imagine my daughter mass murdering a classroom of kids. I'm sure it was inconceivable to Peter, too. And now he has to live with this. It's obvious it's his biggest pain and regret in life.