forensics expert. want to get your take on the numerous extraordinary crime stories engulfing america right now. let s start immediately with this adam lanza case. it is an ongoing problem. i have three sons who all love these video games and you do immediately think could my son potentially be prone to any kind of violent act because of the violent imagery in these games. what do you think? i think with this young man, you had an unbelievable recipe for disaster on so many different fronts and this is where there s got to be some kind of supervision. you don t have a child babysat by having them watch violent video games in the basement. you don t know what he s doing, you don t know what he s doing on the computer, you don t know about the seven foot score sheet that he s creating which is also feeding into his violent fantasies and here s the worst part. this is what i find so offensive about this case is that young man got access to weapons that he should never have gotten his ha
girl that malik was found guilty of raping. i understand his father taking that view. you re the attorney. justice has been served. your client was found guilty and he made an apology which to anyone with a background of covering courts and journalism, that kind of thing happens when people want to apologize. i can understand you pushing in that direction but did you not think that? well, you have about five different questions there. let me make it simpler. would you have advised your client to apologize for a crime he s always denied committing? well, his apology was for the pain that he caused. he was there, there s no question about it. the question that i think mr. richmond, his dad, is concerned with is whether or not he committed a rape on the evidence that he heard. that s his father and he s going to feel that way. will you be appealing, in that case? there will be an appeal. there s a legal agenda that we will follow and there s a personal agenda. the thing th
crime, he does have to register as a sex offender and others need to know that is one of the consequences of rape. i think you would be in the minority on that opinion. i don t think so. you ll have your chance, miss lords. i don t believe that a person at 75 years old should have to explain for something they did at 16 when scientific evidence would support your brain isn t fully developed. when the evidence in a case would suggest that you were under the influence. listen, i have three teenaged sons. when you get to 16, 17, your brain is developed enough to know you shouldn t be raping girls. would disagree. i don t think so. you get to 17, you re nearly a man. either way, would you want to be judged for the rest of your life for something you did at 16? well then maybe you ought to think about that. you engaged in behavior i don t think people would approve of either. excuse me. i have been judged my whole life
wants a grand jury to look at whether anyone else should now be charged in a case that is rocking america. we begin tonight, though, with the mother of the victim in the steubenville case speaking about her daughter s ordeal exclusively to cnn. poppy harlow is here with more. poppy, a harrowing day yesterday. lot of repercussions to come in this case, many think. you secured an exclusive piece of audio from the mother of the victim. tell me about this. reporter: i did. i had a chance tonight, piers, to meet with the mother of this victim and obviously, her daughter, the rape victim, she, her entire family have a lot of healing to do but tonight, it was about issuing this audio statement so that everyone could hear it and i want to play it now in its entirety. my family and i are hopeful that we can put this horrible ordeal behind us. we need and deserve to focus on our daughter s future. we hope that from this, something good can arise. i feel i have an opportunity to bring an awar
were going to be changed significantly, both boys, at that time. and it was something i know the family was also emotionally moved. the mother was extremely emotionally moved by that. powerful though the moment was, the victim here is your client. she s a young teenaged girl who had extreme courage, many would say, in taking this case all the way to court and having her own life laid bare and having now to put up with death threats and god knows what else as a result of simply being a rape victim. how is her state of mind? does she feel any sense of forgiveness to these two young men that did this? she has not at this point forgiven anybody for what she s been through, the terrible ordeal. this just adds to everything. the security i want to mention, piers, has just been extreme. the sheriff and his sons have provided that security knowing these types of emotions were going to come out but to add