The parents appear to be taking this seriously which is a good sign. It sounds like this kid has some special needs; hopefully they can place him in some sort of program with appropriate support and supervision.
I would disagree. Seems like lip service to me. They seem more concerned about people’s reactions to the matter then severity of the situation.
The parents knew there was a problem long before this kid started torturing and killing animals. This behaviour doesn’t just start over night.
This is not a weekly therapy thing, this is a long term impatient treatment thing, if treatment is even possible.
Thankfully members of the community got involved or this kid could keep doing this until they graduated to killing humans.
I’m not saying the parents are “bad” parents that caused this. Usually it is a combination of medical imbalances and environmental causes, but you can’t tell me they didn’t know something was seriously wrong with their kid before this and I believe if they were trying to treat this kid before this, they would have stated something, even in a small part, something about treating him prior to this. But they didn’t say anything. Instead it was all about what people in the community would think and do.
When one line is about the things the kid did and the rest is about other people, it doesn’t seem like they are taking this seriously enough at all and are more just going through the motions now that this is come to public light.