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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

That's the thing for me though, if Brendan was involved... he clearly had (probably still has) the mental capacity of a young child and would have been easily manipulated into his involvement with little understanding of what was going on or the magnitude of it. The fact that he was interviewed at all without an adult present is a disgrace... and the way they lead him in the interview only makes it worse. And then after all of that, he was essentially put on trial as an adult of sound mind... AND with sub-par representation. Just a total shambles really, and right for it to be overturned.

Yeah, I agree with all that. To add to that also he seemed scared of Steve and in one recorded phone call to his mother claimed that he'd been sexually abused by him. If they did actually do it, I would absolutely think that Brendan was also a victim and was probably traumatized by the whole thing.

Speaking of victims though, I do hope everyone remembers the real victim in all of this, that poor woman who was actually murdered, sometimes it feels like because of that TV series she's almost seen as a "baddie" along with her family :/ I wonder how they're feeling right now too