[Karunamon]

Because the police were never involved directly. "He" was still legally a child, for one. For two, the author was unbelievably gracious enough to not take him straight to the cops.

A happy ending all around, really. Hopefully the teen idiot will have something good come of his counselling and the world will be a slightly better place.

[derleth]

> Hopefully the teen idiot will have something good come of his counselling and the world will be a slightly better place.

Sociopaths benefit from counseling in that they become better able to fool counselors. We can only hope whoever he goes to realizes this.

[datalus]

You trolling? It never ceases to amaze me that people who read a blog post suddenly form hard lined opinions about a real world situation.

To me, it's a bit sociopath-like to be so vindictive about a situation that you know next to nothing about. What's the relationship between the poster and the kid? He most likely knows the boy's past, he knows the family, and yet it's all too easy to forget all that and condemn someone.

If only there were more people in the world like the OP, and less knee jerkers.

[derleth]

I hope I'm wrong and that the troll isn't a sociopath.

[datalus]

In all honesty, I didn't mean to jump all over your comment, there's plenty of worse offenders in the thread for that kind of reply.

However, it still stands that we just don't know enough to make any judgement call. It's in society's hands as it were now anyway, and all the best we can do is hope for something good to come out of this.