Imagine Nikolas hearing that not only his bio mom didn’t want him but adoptive mom regretted taking him too. That was likely not news to him.

It’s hard to see kids growing up this way. It makes you feel compassion for the many kids out there having physical/spiritual/mental issues…. Hard to see them go full psychopathic 🙏🏼

The way he planned the whole massacre was very coldly calculated, not by someone who doesn't think, not by a mentally ill person.  God of strength to those families who lost their loved ones.

The psychologist seems like an awesome clinician who really cared and tried to help the family. He really knows his patients.  He has treated him in over 15 years. His testimony is so different from the much younger psychiatrist who treated Nikolas for 5 years when he was much older. The psychiatrist couldn't recollect any of his behaviors and claimed he never knew anything about his multiple behavioral referrals from his school. He also claimed he never received the letter of concern that he was preoccupied with guns and violence.

“Do you think she was embarrassed of him?”
Uhhhh yeah, let me see this attorney handling a kid that snaps in the middle of McDonald’s because he can’t get anymore fries and starts kicking you, cussing at the McDonald’s staff who have nothing to do with the incident. Throwing chairs and getting worse when you ask him to calm down because you can’t really give consequences to a child that has say oppositional defiant disorder etc… stuff that has nothing to do with discipline but entirely about mental disorders and damage that occurred due to drug use of the mother while pregnant or others…
I had one child who try to chock me with the seatbelt as I was driving. Just because I said I would not be going to the store that day. He also tried to chock Himself with the seatbelt, would kick my bio son who was younger than him, tried to throw himself off the car (moving car on the freeway). Trashed his bedroom when asked to be on time out. Broke the bed, holes on the wall… all whilst the therapist just say “ok when you notice that he’s escalating at bed time because he doesn’t want to go to sleep just sit next to him and remind him that he needs to sleep or else he’ll have a bad day at school” 😒😒😒😒😒 bruh. Every single night feeling like a morron trying to keep a poker face so the child doesn’t get more triggered if he thinks you made a face that is threatening. They also tell you to say”ok I’m going to go to bed and I hope you do to”. And you need to walk away as you hear the child destroying your house and potentially hurting your pets 😕 bruh. Nobody knows what it is to deal with a child like tjis

It sounds like adoptive mom may have had mental health issues as well

Mental illness runs in his bio mom’s family and bio mom abused drugs and alcohol during her pregnancy. Adoption, for whatever reason, is difficult on the child when child has no mental illness family history. Plus, sounds like adoptive family was older, not a good fit at times.

Anyone else notice that for such a miserable human being and supposedly awful childhood, he is grinning from ear to ear?

So sad

SO much damage in 6 minutes that will last a lifetime for the families of the victims

He looks like Dr Jacoby from Twin Peaks

This is the genius who vetoed institutionalizing Cruz before the shooting and said he had a "low risk" of harming anyone.

Does anyone know if and what Lynda Cruz’s plan was for this kid who clearly shouldn’t have ever been left alone?!  My goodness- what a tragic avoidable act.

This reminds me of the sessions I needed to have right after my daughter lost her dad in the World Trade Center. She was in 9th grade when it happened.
She wouldn't let me go to work. I asked why one time, and she said "What if. . .what if you never come back?"
I hated Osama bin Laden from then until the day he was caught.

This is all fine and dandy, but it DOESN'T CHANGE A THING: Life in prison w/o parole or the D penalty, pick one.

The adoptive mother and father were not equipped to deal with the person of Nikolas since he was born.

Nikolas Cruz has experienced a very damaged childhood; pain and suffering, and no fault of his own. The severe damaging comments made to his face, as a child by vicious neighbors, the relentless bullying from his own brother and, students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas School, and at the special schools he attended when he was a younger child were   the environmental component of his make up; that coupled with drugs (prescription & non-prescription), alcohol, etc. that his birth mother ingested, while Nikolas was forming in her womb definitely contributed to the genetic component of his make up. And through no fault of his own. He has suffered and died, not physically, but emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually; through no fault of his own, but from other people. His personhood has been under attack since he was born. I feel for him.

WTF that monster sits there with a coffee takeaway next to 6 lawyers and 2 sitting behind them I've never seen worse in my life 😡I will watch this trial even though it's beyond pathetic😡what a waste of time all for this thing🤬

All the testimonies prove Lynda's unconditional love. Sadly, she was not by any means an effective parent. However she did try to help her sons... love, taking them to docyors to be evaluated, meeting school teachers. She did her best. Poor woman.😢

I can’t help but notice what a cute child and handsome young man he became.  He never heard it.