Oh, my heart just breaks for the man who lost wife and child in an instant. An unimaginably hideous loss. It also breaks - don't hate me - for the stupid 'pretty' kid and his family. I'd want to die if one of my children caused the death of others. Just die. I haven't finished your article yet so you may address this - unless he's a sociopath and/or raised by total a-holes, the boy must feel huge guilt. Yet consequences are consequences...I'm not at all suggesting he should receive a lesser sentence.