The system failed this guy three times by letting him grow up in an abusive family with nobody lifting a finger, by letting him grow up in an environment with lots of crime, plenty of drugs, crappy underfunded schools, etc. And then finally by exposing them to vindictive/moralistic people insisting to convict a child as an adult.
That's an indifferent society that destroys people. Being part of that mob mentality is nothing to be proud of. It doesn't solve the problem; it perpetuates it. It's the root cause of the US having the largest prison population per capita in the world (and that's including some really nasty countries).
That's an indifferent society that destroys people. Being part of that mob mentality is nothing to be proud of. It doesn't solve the problem; it perpetuates it. It's the root cause of the US having the largest prison population per capita in the world (and that's including some really nasty countries).