14 DAY TRIAL // Oh, this is just too much for any parent to put up with! We've heard of teens stealing gaming systems and hardware from stores and homes, we've heard of a disturbed teen who even set his own house on fire after the family sold his Xbox 360, ending up in the death of his younger brother, but hiring a hitman to whack your folks...?
Forcing parents to punish them because of their addiction to video games is bad enough, but wanting to get back at them for doing so, proves that the situation is getting out of hands. As TimesOnline reports, "Mrs Troiano remembers the night on June 2 when she discovered that the vague threats her son had made were serious." Noticing that Cory's situation in school was getting worse, she confiscated his PlayStation (the report doesn't say which model) and started grounding him on a regular basis.
Then, one day, "a woman Cory trusted, the mother of one of his friends, took him to a hotel room where he met an undercover police officer pretending to be a hitman." The kid offered his stepfather's pickup truck as payment for the job, even saying that "Two bullets is all it takes," to the undercover cop.
Of course, the first thing to be taken into account are the parents themselves. As always, stuff like this doesn't just happen out of the blue. Something had to set off this disturbed kid and apparently, something did.
As the same website posts, the mother is a financial manager at Patuxent River naval station. The stepfather is a computer specialist. The two claim to have lived an ordinary life with Cory and his two stepsisters. However, "Mrs Troiano had left his father when Cory was little more than a year old but," and "by the time she remarried, her son's behaviour was getting steadily worse." So something must have happened in between.
Whether they were having some financial issues, or not having a man around the house while he was growing up, the fact that Cory "walked out of lessons at Spring Ridge Middle School in Lexington Park, smashed a fire extinguisher case and then broke into the county fairgrounds, where he vandalised property", clearly says that something was missing in this kid's life.
However, the high point of his malicious behavior was probably when he stole $45 from his sister's piggy bank, after which he had a fight with his mother, who kicked him out of the house. Cory told officials "that he was upset about being thrown out of the house and that he felt pressured to talk to the man in the hotel", the same piece reads.
The judge has ruled that he should be tried in the juvenile system, meaning that he'll be out by his 21st birthday. His mother was worried that if authorities had put him in a program, he would be released "to the street" with little change in his behavior. Cory has also sent his mother a letter, in which he wrote "You know I love you with all my heart mom!"
Who and what to blame anymore in this messed up world of ours...?