Reply #182: Knock it off! [View All]

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The kid is 14!

Notice the context of the statement: "I didn't think he was that kind of kid," Sandoval said. "I guess you never know. He made a big mistake."

What the kid is actually saying is "I made a big mistake." In other words, "I thought he was a nice, normal guy. I made a mistake in my perception of him."

His psyche is processing the whole ordeal--trying to make sense of it all and understand it--and this is how it happened to "come out" with the language. His language is--paradoxically--clear, yet garbled.

The press should not be permitted to publish statements from young kids who have just been severely traumatized and are in the midst of psychologically processing the experience. This is like taking individual statements from a counseling or psychotherapy session and publishing them.