http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rt-papers.html
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Franklin Bennett Roof, often called Benn, who bought his son the gun which he used for the massacre, subjected Paige to a ‘pattern of control and mental manipulation’ that ended with a vicious assault, court files reveal.
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Franklin is said to have shredded Paige’s self esteem during their 10-year marriage and kept her in a virtual prison by calling her several times a day and demanding to know what she was doing.
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Hastings said that Franklin was ‘manipulative’ and that once in January 2009 he came round and was ‘pounding on the front door and yelling in the extreme’.
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As the divorce was finalized in 2009 Dylan’s last chance of a stable family life disappeared, meaning that at the age of 15 his life began to go off the rails.
His main anchor in life was a father who was away travelling for four days each week with his construction company.
Dylann began to skip classes, did not finish high school and became unemployed, living ‘on and off’ with his father while he spent his days doing drugs and playing video games.
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Hastings wrote that Dylann stayed with Paige and Franklin far more often than with his own mother, who was supposed to have him every other weekend.
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The obvious influence of his father was undoubtedly a factor, if not
the factor, to where he ended up.
So many of these stories lead back to terrible upbringings.