Loading ...-A lot of parents don’t know how to discipline a child. The critical period to learn the meaning of NO is age 2-4. He may have parents who are overindulgent wusses (like many parents these days).
-Neglect. The family says “he has been through a lot”, and are admittedly clueless about where he is and what he does. A 13 year old running around unsupervised (long enough to do the things he did) sounds like a pedophile’s dream come true, anyway.
-The child may have a medical or psychiatric condition, which may not have been evaluated or properly diagnosed. If he has even had medical evaluation, it may be that the doctors are clueless or the parents are too cheap or busy to figure out what’s wrong.
If you can check “no” to all three items on the above list, then (and only then) will I believe in the inherent and unexplained evil of a 13 year old.
Paper route? Fuck that. I’m going to make some real money.
Riley, 13, is accused of burglary, theft, stolen property and vandalism. It stems from a crime spree that the Athens County assistant prosecutor said lasted a year.
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