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by yCloser 1300 days ago
His family should have monitored his online activity but failed horribly to do so.
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He was 21 at the time and thus legally an adult.
You can't really have it both ways. If he was a responsible adult then he deserves the punishment that he's getting. If he wasn't fully capable then his family really needed to be practicing ongoing oversight over him.