Sociopathic Children

I'm doing a research paper for my tutor on sociopathic children. Originally, I was going to do something on serial killers and what drove them to murder. I would research on their unusual brain scans showing signs of low control over impulse and judgement. I looked up on what their pasts usually were and what not. Well, I was watching SVU, Special Victims Unit and it was one where a 5 year old boy was asphyxiated from small rocks jammed down his throat. In the end his 13 year old neighbor, Jake, was the culprit. Through the entire investigation, Jake had been a seemingly cooperative witness, claiming to have seen an old man (presumed as a pedophile) watching the boy. He smiled, and acted it all out, until his prints were found on the rocks in the boy's trachea. He then also acted out the regretful, stupid and crying kid, when in the end, he never felt regret or remorse for his chillingly cold blooded actions. Jake made up some sob story about an abusive camp his mother had put him in, the 5 year old had dirt on him that would get his back in that camp. After his sob story and his seemingly regretful and normal remorseful behavior, Jake was tried on family court for manslaughter and would be release at 18. Prosecutors had been completely fooled until they contacted the camp, spoke to the campers and learned that Jake was the abusive and crazy one. He violently assaulted kids, threatened them, and killed animals. The camp director had reccomended to his mother that Jake be instituionalized but she wouldn't hear any of it. SVU quickly realized that they had been completely fooled the whole time and that Jake was a sociopath. Capable of high levels of manipulation and deceit, violent behavior with no remorse, and at 18, he'd be free to walk again. When the prosecutor barged into family court and brought this new evidence to the table, the motion was denied since his trial had just finished. He'd be out at 18. The dead boy's father was a psychiatrist and when he heard the SVU say that Jake had faked all that abuse and burned his own arm with cigarettes, he knew Jake was a sociopath and shot him apparently in rage. Though later prosecutors believed that the "grieving father" was just a calm minded man that just wanted to kill the sociopathic kid, since ther was no cure for sociopathy. However, the dad won the case and in the end told the prosecutor that she was right, he was clear headed when he grabbed a gun and shot Jake, killing him.

Personally, I think if I was in his position, I would've shot Jake because of extreme emotional disturbance, which is a court defense similar to the insanity defense. I was absolutely  sickened by that episode, I seriously wanted to hurl and jump in their and rip Jake's cold blooded heart out. That sparked my interest in sociopathic children. A report I should be working on right now, but decided to detour and update this blog. I've been meaning to update yesterday and the day before that. I even had ideas...then I forgot.

Oh Woe is I. D: