Not, apparently, the Columbine killers. (http://columbine.free2host.net/eric.html) Ted Kaczynski claimed he was verbally abused, but there is no evidence to show that he suffered other abuse. (http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/kaczynski/12.html?sect=22) (And remember, Kaczynski had siblings who turned out perfectly normally, with a normal sense of right and wrong: Ted's brother was the one who turned him into police.) And Jefferey Dahmer had a perfectly normal childhood. (http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/notorious/dahmer/why_4.html)
Not all serial killers had abusive childhoods. Not all people who were abused as children turn into serial killers. Are you more likely to end up a serial killer if you were abused? Maybe. But that's not enough to charge anyone of anything, absent other evidence.
How a person turns out depends upon a complicated interplay of factors, of which the parents are an important but not a sole determinative. There are also inherited emotional and psychological traits, for example.
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Date: 2005-03-14 11:15 pm (UTC)Not all serial killers had abusive childhoods. Not all people who were abused as children turn into serial killers. Are you more likely to end up a serial killer if you were abused? Maybe. But that's not enough to charge anyone of anything, absent other evidence.
How a person turns out depends upon a complicated interplay of factors, of which the parents are an important but not a sole determinative. There are also inherited emotional and psychological traits, for example.