Steve’s legal team has advised them that due to his mental health issues, they have done all they can to make sure that Steve can remain under the supervision and care and protection of his parents, as that is the best option for his recovery and well-being. Any institution would only drive Steve back to the place that he had been before. This is allowed and granted so long as they meet a lot of conditions and take responsibility.
The important issue for the courts is the outcome of the death of Gabriella Valente. Was it indeed a murder, a death caused by someone who was reckless or in their own right mind? Or was it a person lost within his own mind who didn’t know exactly what he was doing? Or was it indeed just a terrible accident? Can Steve prove that, in fact, he never actually touched her or pushed her at all?
Steve believes it is the truth and so is his pattern of behaviour proof to the legals and the courts, who wish prove this. There were no marks or bruises caused by Steve except the knock on the head that she had when she slipped, an accident but not deliberate? He is beside himself because he should have been responsible and contacted the medical help but he states he did not realise that, in fact, she was badly hurt. Was he in the right frame of mind to be able to realise that she would die? Death was far from his thoughts, in his own mind he was not right and sending him back to the prison or institution may deepen his black hole.
In his own mind, he wasn’t right and the mental state was tattooed inside his head for a long time and did him a lot of harm. What a negative impact that had on him, it was showing quite clearly in Steve’s mind, if home is the best place, then questions must be asked as to why he would be put elsewhere. Why he has not gotten to that stage in his life to be able to stay with the parents when now it is the best place for him to stay? Why does he feel so confused? Why be placed in the place where he should have gotten help? Now with the family on his side and living together as one family in their own family house, what percentage of his version was the whole truth and how could it be proved?
Steve is in no state of mind to take big steps; however, he does take baby steps and shows remorse at every possible occasion of his own actions and part in everything that went on and took. The death of Gabriella played a big part on him, the society and the world as a whole that he was growing up in the making and breaking of Steve Smith. Everything was carefully planned and not so much by Steve himself but by the mind that was controlling the body of Steve Smith.
A lot of questions are asked and a lot of assumptions and careful planning with evidence have to be thought through but at the end of the day, it is a big task for everyone to prove their own innocence, their part in what happened on that awful dreadful night. In his mind now, things seem to be a little bit different to how things were in his mind a while ago. And not necessarily is everything quite right but the thought that in his mind, perhaps he wasn’t treated well and was he the making of the society he was living in or had nature nurtured him to depend heavily on parents or was he just too young to remain stable? Did Steve’s illness outweigh the harm he accidentally caused to society or to someone’s life? Is there enough compassion or forgiveness to enable victims to move on and is there simply enough support for people suffering in silence?
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