In my AP English class in high school (1995) we had to read Native Son by Richard Wright.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929804/102-4061372-6897731?v=glance
The book is about a young black man that commits heinous crimes against two women yet Wright attempts to persuade the reader to feel sorry for him because of his economic and social plight. The acts of violence committed by this young man were brutal and Wright did not spare words describing them however he attempted to justify them.
I cannot fathom any reason, socioeconomic or sociopath, that would motivate someone to do what Milagro Cunningham did to this young girl. He is pure unadulterated evil and hell is too good for him. Every breath he draws is an insult to life and I pray his will be ended soon.
I have often read
of left-wing Americans
who do some traveling
around the planet
and see really poor people,
and the left-wingers
write how shocked they are
that overseas poor people
are generally
as law-abiding
as non-poor people. The link
between lack-of-cash
and criminal acts
appears to be some kind of
learned, side-effect of
a certain kind of
pop culture getting common
in the Western world . . .