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Extended case study of Tyler youth who slayed special ed teacher

The Dallas News has published an excellent, extended article by Lee Hancock on the sad case out of Tyler where a mentally ill youth named Byron who was hearing voices stabbed his special ed teacher, Todd Henry, at John Tyler High. I'd refrained from commenting on this high-profile case because we knew so little about the youth and the situation beyond the bare facts of the murder, but now Hancock has provided a wealth of detailed background. Here's a notable excerpt:bureaucrat after bureaucrat seemed bent on making a deranged child someone else's problem. Byron was pushed from school to treatment center to prison and back in a pattern that, on paper, looks like treatment by transfer. Official fears about what Byron might be capable of went largely unshared until Henry died...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 30, 2010 (boomark / email).