Anorexic, unmedicated and obsessed with a murder-mad cyber world: Adam Lanza's mental issues went untreated by officials who allowed Sandy Hook shooter's mother to overpower them, probe finds

[flowers]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2843674/New-report-details-schools-health-officials-repeatedly-appeased-Sandy-Hook-shooter-Adam-Lanza-s-mom-addressing-crippling-mental-health-issues.html

Adam Lanza had always been a child in need of help.

At age 3, he was referred to special education after he began to exhibit oddly repetitive behaviors and couldn't socialize like most kids.

By fourth grade, he had been diagnosed with anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and autism.

Yet year after year — as psychiatrists insisted that Lanza should be on treatment and strict medication — his mother Nancy refused to follow through on the requests.

She chalked up her son's behavior to a presumed superior intelligence, seeing him as a gifted student, despite testing done by experts showing he presented average intelligence.

But, as the years went on, the truth became clearer: Adam Lanza was a deeply troubled young man who obsessed over mass killings as he fell deeper into a pit of mental illness while his mother ignored his struggles

These are the findings of a new report by the Office of the Child Advocate in Connecticut, which released on Friday a 114-page dossier about the life of the shooter who massacred 20 children and six adult staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown on December 14, 2012.