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anne schindler
@schindy
16h16 hours ago
We are back in court for day 2 of Logan Mott's sentencing hearing. Up today is a psychologist who spent many hours evaluating the teen. She will testify on his behalf and may be today's only witness. His mom is scheduled to appear Friday. @FCN2go
Therapist testifying on behalf of Logan Mott, Marty Beyer, also consulted in the Cristian Fernandez case
He lived in a battleground" Marty Beyer testifies about Logan Mott's childhood amid his parent's bitter marriage and divorce. Logan seems to be paying attention to this testimony, which is a departure from the past several witnesses.
Judge Bruce Anderson interjects a question, wondering if Logan's diabetes (and management) impacted his already adolescent/primitive brain -- specifically his brain being dominated by the amygdala
Dr. Beyer says Logan Mott "ended up being much more depressed than his family was aware of ...it was chronic and worsening as he experienced the feeling of rejection by his father and then public humiliation by his first love ... he turned to alcohol"
Logan Mott text to father July 2017 "You're right I'm a jerk. I really don’t care about a lot anymore & I haven’t for some time. No one can fix me if I'm part of the problem...I have more bad qualities than good ones & that is what really makes me feel like crap."
"Nothing... suggests sociopathy or a lack of concern for social values or moral right and wrong," Dr. Beyer says of her evaluation of Logan Mott. "In the moment a teenager may be unable to do the right thing."
"He told me what happened and his face lost all of its color and he began sobbing," Dr. Beyer testifies. "He described being in shock that was the word that he used. He thought it was a nightmare and he couldn't register what had just happened and that it was so awful"
"Burying her was the right thing to do," Dr. Beyer recalls Logan Mott telling her. He burned sage and removed her clothes because "it would be disrespectful" to bury her in bloody clothes." He added, "I'll never be able to forgive myself. I killed my own grandmother."
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