Tions of this numbing, we see children being cruel to animals, siblings, friends, and even parents or grandparents there is a lack of sensitivity to the pain of others, and thereis adistorted association of pain with various events.
Children become isolated and disconnected from others. In a Massachusetts case, a 14-year-old youth took a 7 - year - old retarded boy into the woods and beat him to death. He had told people he was going to do this , and no one intervened