Learning Disability Case

Billy had a learning disability that no one ever knew how to help him nor make sure that he would stay on track, a person with a learning disability, other problems occur for example, school work, daily routines at home, making friends and so on, it becomes hard for a juvenile to learn tasks (Bartollas, 61). Billy was never treated nice at home nor was given the help he needed, instead Billy was beaten on a daily basis, he was beaten with cords, belts, sticks and so on. Billy was also teased in school because he couldn’t read and was called a dummy by his peers. So, when the old man called him a dummy, it through him over the edge and in a rage, he attacked the old man. Billy lost control of his feelings, he was never thought how to control

He never had a parent figure and in school no one ever helped him out instead he was teased because he was diagnosed with dyslexic-neurologically impaired. Also, by the age of nine he was sniffing glue which wasn’t helping him out. He dropped out by the age of fourteen when its critical for a young boy to be in school that way he can have a future, but instead he turned to drugs, alcohol, and prostitution to make a living. Billy had an emotional deficiency, he wasn’t able to stay in school, he hardly had friends, he was depressed, angry, alienated and who become a depend on drugs and alcohol and which could have led him into the juvenile system (Bartollas, 62). Once he is in the juvenile system, most of the kids get forgotten or sent of to prison where they don’t get the help they need, for Billy he still has the chance to change his life around and make a better future for himself. By going to rehab instead of prison he has the option to get clean, learn how to read, finish of high school, therapy, and get job compare to prison he will just rot away in a small cell and never get the proper

Should his past history of abuse and neglect be considered in his sentencing? Why or why not?

Yes, Billy’s past of abused and neglect should be considered in his sentencing because this is where being rage came from. He never knew anything other than been beaten as a young boy, so naturally his rage let him to beat an old man to death.

Through intelligence researchers have noticed that juveniles with low IQ are prone to criminal acts once the grow up, another factor is environmental, for example, home environment, school performance, and peers (Bartollas, 60). With Billy’s past not having a great environment growing up shows us why he became a delinquent. We can see that an environment is important when a child is growing up because they absorber everything. The books states, “Emotional traumas experienced in childhood, including an unconscious sense of guilt, are likely to cause lifelong psychological problems (Bartollas,