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In panel 4, that should be “when we talk to his lawyer?”
So… *frowns* When was the last time we saw Jestan exactly? <<;;; I kinda lost track
A while back. We last saw him when he was in prison being harassed by Tiberon.
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He seems to have gotten over the two black eyes Benni gave him. 😉
It seems that the parents didn’t realize of more than 1 thing about the table incident’s follow-up, not just the fact that it was Beth-Anne who started it.
*don’t know/realize
Beth-Anne started it?
The table incident itself, no. It was Jestan who started it. BUT Beth-Anne asked him some time later to deal with Tanya
They’re taking this remarkably well…are they in mild denial about their kid being a monster in the making?
Jestan is a Rapist. He’s far more than “in the making.”
He’s graduated.
True, but the rabbit hole goes far deeper and darker. Right now he’s just a piece of crap. He might feel bad about what he did when he gets older. He assaulted a peer. If he’d something to a toddler, THAT would put him in monster territory.
I will disagree here.
Except that he even threatened Beth-Anne that he would rape her as well if she tried to stop him again, besides that he groped his (biological?) sister before being adopted by his foster parents.
Sex offenders who genuinely regret their own actions later in life are extremely rare.
Unfortunately, parents are often the last to realize in those situations. Nobody wants to think they’re kid is a monster, so they make excuses or they go into denial. Several chapters back, Beth Anne mentions she tried to tell their parents what happened with Tanya but they didn’t believe her. Only time will tell if Jestan’s parents wake up.
Yeah, they’re acting like whoever informed them was very vague about things, like “Your son got into a situation with a classmate” or something.
There is a very small part of me that wants to sympathize with Jestan seeing him run into his mother’s arms like that but then I remember what did to Tanya and is implied to have done to Beth-Anne and I’m like Nah…..
… That’s a kid who had an adult threaten to rape him. No matter what he did, i think we can afford to feel bad for him. He *is* still just a kid. Mama Joon gets down on her knees to hug him
Chances are, he’s just as abused as every other kit here and needs some love and care to put him on the right track.
I do consider the possibility that he was abused; it would explain his behavior, at least. If he actually was abused, I could sympathize him, though he’d still need to redeem himself in a bit way.
I mean… he’s in a foster home, just like beth-anne is. That certainly implies something *somewhere* went wrong in his backstory. none of that forgives rape, and of course he needs to redeem himself, but I sincerely doubt that this story about CSA is going to say that one of the kids is just an irredeemable monster <3
Which is an attitude we should take in real life too.
Yeah, I don’t really agree in this specific case. He’s already raped a schoolmate with absolutely no mitigating factors involved. It’s implied that it might not be the first time. AND he threatened to do the same to Beth-Anne. A rapist who does it more than once is cooked; finished, done. They are a serial offender, and criminal statistics show that they are 80%+ likely* to do it again and again until they are put away permanently. *- the actual numbers differ from study to study, I have seen it high as 92%… but this only accounts for the rapists… Read more »
One should also point out very psychotic behavior in the manner he gleefully stabbed Tanya’s foot. That sort of thing is indicative of sociopath, hence dangerous, Any sympathy for Jasten layeth in the dictionary twixt ‘shit’ and ‘syphilis’.