It's true that many children are abused horribly and do not go out and kill. But enough of them do, that it's a real concern - you only need to examine the background of the majority of serial killers to see the pattern, there. We cannot know what hell, exactly, Jamirion was put through to make him feel so desperate that he believed killing an innocent bystander was his 'way out' of it all but as someone who lived through a violent, abusive childhood I can tell you it is *devastating* beyond belief to have time away from the abuse, only to be put right back in it again, and you're powerless, utterly powerless, to do anything about it, let alone make anyone listen to you. It is a kind of pain that is very hard to let go of, even more so than any memory of physical abuse.. because bodily pain passes, but that sense of being crushed as a person never leaves you entirely.
I was one of those children who did not kill. But I did put myself in an unbelievably scary situation (though to me at the time, it didn't seem so), in my bid to leave my family home for my own safety and sanity. I chose to leave my home and never set foot in it again - the authorities, when they finally caught me, were told very clearly what lengths I would go to, were I forced to return to that horrendous situation -- again.
I was lucky, in that I had a relatively sane family member to take me in. I can't say what I may have done, if they'd made me go home again. Probably something desperate.
It's very possible for abusive parents (and the various factions which enable their abuse) to drive a perfectly sane kid insane, that way. I have NO trouble seeing how that can happen, at all.
