We Need to Talk About Kevin… and Harry and Aaron

If you haven’t seen the movie We Need to Talk About Kevin, I highly recommend it; it’s an interesting perspective on the development of a child with callous, unemotional traits to a juvenile psychopath. It’s not based on a true story. But, unfortunately, Harry’s and Aaron’s and Joshua’s stories are.

Harry Leigh’s criminal career started when he was 13; since then, he has racked up quite a list of felony charges, including inciting four girls aged under 16 to engage in sexual activity over a three-year period, making seven girls between ages 12 and 15 watch a sexual act and making indecent images of children. At 16, Aaron Campbell abducted, raped and murdered 6-year-old Alesha MacPhail. On April 9, 2018, 16-year-old Joshua Brian Davis, filmed himself snapping live raccoon’s leg with bolt cutters, strangling a cat, and crucifying opossums and removing their internal organs while they were still alive.

What do we do with teenagers like this?

The Controversy Around Juvenile Psychopathy

Harry Leigh, Aaron Campbell, and Joshua Davis are dangerous young men. And, based on the nature of their criminal behavior as well as their alleged demeanor after an arrest, they do not appear to feel any remorse for what they have done or any empathy for their victims. If they were adults, few mental health…