When he was 18, Raymond Harris was sent to prison for robbing a woman at
gunpoint. When he was 23, three weeks after getting out of prison, he
was arrested for rape and setting his victim's home on fire.
Now, six months after a 13-year prison term, Raymond beat an old woman
to death, stole her wedding bands, and proposed to his girlfriend with
them. (Sun-Times 11 Nov 11)
What sort of school or home or friends did he have that, as a teenager, Raymond was mugging people with guns?
What did he learn in prison that, right after getting out, he raped and stabbed a woman?
How was prison life, that the parole board released him? That Raymond
thought it was OK to kill a woman, take the rings off her fingers, go to
a party, and, romantically, give the rings in a wedding proposal?
How could we rear such a child, and grow such a man, and unleash him on so many victims?
11 November 2011
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