This case is a very sad demonstration of how mental health and communication difficulties in childhood can contribute to kids going off the rails 
I also particularly dislike the description of a fellow arrestee as an "Asperger’s sufferer". Life can be hard for people with autism, but it doesn't have to be and not every body "suffers" with it. Lots of the kids I work with are very happy with who they are, and it's everybody else (who has to do all that strange social interaction stuff) who is suffering 
Yeah, "Asperger's sufferer", while these kids can do stuff many "normal" people can't. The only thing backward is the culture that doesn't take advantage of the capabilities of all the different "sufferers".
