Teen Guilty In Bomb Case

Bob wrote:

There should be no plea bargain in this case and the student should go away for at least 25.

Bill wrote:

I'm glad to see there is still some compassion for a misguided young man as well as a sensible solution to public safety in this case.
Intensive therapy will do much more to make society safer than turning a distrubed teenager into a hardened, imbalanced, violent criminal in a prison system racked with gangs, rape and other violence. Let us all be thankful the young man did not succeed and hopeful about his monitoring and rehabilitation.

High School Parent wrote:

In four years, he'll come out and finish the job. Unbelievable. And people wonder why the world is the way it is. It's because terrorism is alive and well.....with no accountability. This kid should serve his entire 12 year sentence. He's a loose canon. Another whimpy judge.

Bill wrote:

I'm glad to see there is still some compassion for a misguided young man as well as a sensible solution to public safety in this case.
Intensive therapy will do much more to make society safer than turning a distrubed teenager into a hardened, imbalanced, violent criminal in a prison system racked with gangs, rape and other violence. Let us all be thankful the young man did not succeed and hopeful about his monitoring and rehabilitation.

Sandra wrote:

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I am sure he will learn alot playing basketball all day with his milk and cookies at night! Connecticut jails are nothing more then a camp.

Newington High parent wrote:

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Why should he get 25 years, people who murder in this state get much less? I hope this kid gets the help he needs and is out in less than 4.

Get Real wrote:

the anger that some kids are capable of is unreal.
where are they learning this stuff?

High School Parent wrote:

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I suppose it wasnt one of your kids on his hit list...otherwise, you would think differently.

out of hartford wrote:

pipe bombs being made in his basement at home?where were his parents?like always the inmates run the asylum.as a parent i'm to curious about eveything that my sons did when they were teenagers.

Student wrote:

I went to Newington High when this happened. I did not feel threatened at all, and do not believe that anything would have happened. Obviously people don't remember what it was like being in high school. I don't think that someone so young should waste their best years in prison. If he had made the effort to act on it, that would be a different story, people shouldn't be punished for acts they didn't commit. And part of what is wrong with people these days, are the people who don't have a little compassion. Thats what breeds the hate.

Karen O wrote:

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We do remember what it's like to be in high school. There weren't kids blowing up schools and shooting their classmates.
Nothing was acted on...you and the rest of the school is VERY LUCKY nothing was. Do you want to wait until a Columbine happens at the school before anything is done about it? Of course something should be done to this child. People should be punished for what they have planned on doing. My God he could have killed! He needs some serious serious help.
You're right, there is barely any compassion left in this world. There is also no personal responsibility either. Many of these kids are the way they are because they have been bullied to the point where they break. They have no where to go for help. Those that do the bullying are the ones who are "victims" when the kid breaks. So people tend to forget the "victims" may have not been victims in the first place, if people had stepped up and stopped the bullying before it got out of hand.