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An Ottawa County sheriff's deputy once described 13-year-old Fathi Cullen in a way that stuck with the boy's adoptive parents.
"It's as if he has two personalities, a good kid and a monster," they recalled the deputy saying.
It's that dichotomy of character that prosecutors and juvenile court caseworkers now struggle with as they decide how to deal with Cullen, a diminutive and often reserved boy with a history of sex assaults that began nearly two years ago.
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The judge also ruled him competent to stand trial after hearing a psychologist say Cullen was highly prone to impulsive actions that might be caused by a chemical imbalance in his brain, but said he did not suffer from psychosis.
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Antonio Cullen said his son is on a high dose of Ritallin, an attention deficit disorder drug, but did not have the medication the day he left the family's house, also in the River Haven Village mobile home park. His son left through a window without permission.
"He is better on the medication, but still things happen even when he is on it," Antonio Cullen said.
He's not sure why his son began committing sexually deviant acts in late 2005, but speculated that puberty coupled with his emotional disorder fueled the trouble.
Mungo, Fathi Cullen's attorney, plans to prove the 13-year-old is not criminally responsible because of the possible chemical imbalance and "extreme impulsivity."
"They want to try him as an adult for something he doesn't understand he did or why he did it," Mungo said.
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