Stories like this raise so many questions. When a child does something horrifying, disgusting or damaging to another person, what is the best approach towards restoring dignity to the victim and redirecting the perpetrator to a better path? The just answer can not be to damn them to eternal hell before they even have full agency. It may be utter shame or poor character development that prevents Mitchell from effectively showing remorse, but maybe he is psychotic and feels none. Who knows?
Any society that stains a child with a scarlet letter for the remainder of their life without consideration for how that child was led so astray in the first place is no more just than the society that would allow a disabled child to be abused unchecked and uncorrected.
This article made me want to know more about the story. Maybe one day, we will.
Stories like this raise so many questions. When a child does something horrifying, disgusting or damaging to another person, what is the best approach towards restoring dignity to the victim and redirecting the perpetrator to a better path? The just answer can not be to damn them to eternal hell before they even have full agency. It may be utter shame or poor character development that prevents Mitchell from effectively showing remorse, but maybe he is psychotic and feels none. Who knows?
Any society that stains a child with a scarlet letter for the remainder of their life without consideration for how that child was led so astray in the first place is no more just than the society that would allow a disabled child to be abused unchecked and uncorrected.
This article made me want to know more about the story. Maybe one day, we will.