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is for the fact that he clearly was raised by wolves. If your child sends you emails talking about how horrific his daily life is--one abuse after another--and then sends you pictures documenting it, you contact his commanding officers and the authorities immediately (1) to stop the abuse, and (2) to stop your child from continuing to psychologically harm himself as well as others. You seek out a very reputable therapist and hire a kick-ass lawyer and hope that you can keep that little boy on Santa's lap from devolving into a monster. What you don't do is nothing. What you do NOT do is excuse his behavior and whine about his punishment.
Granger deserves his jail time and he very clearly needs medication and intensive therapy for his sadistic impulses. Period. I'm disappointed that Salon would conflate outrage over the fact that his superiors were not punished with sympathy for this criminal. I urge this writer to think the issue through again.
