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An Educator’s Look at School Shooters
Why Me?Learned what I know
on reservations
Educator – the only profession
that analyzes the brain function
of every child over a long
period of time.
Profiles of Prenatal Alcohol
Exposure
Examples of Variability from Brain Damage
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Emotional Age
Expressive Language
Social Maturity
Executive Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading Comprehension
Jody Allen Crowe 2010
Couple a day
Binge drinker
Heavy everyday
drinker
No drinking
Occasional drink
Stopped at 6 weeks
First Trimester
Chart Title
Examples of Variability from Brain Damage
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Expressive Language
Social Maturity
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Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading Comprehension
Jody Allen Crowe 2010
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5
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Emotional Age
Expressive
Language
Social Maturity
Executive Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading
Comprehension
Jody Allen Crowe 2010
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5
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20Chronological Age
Emotional Age
Expressive
Language
Social Maturity
Executive
Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading
Comprehension
Jody Allen Crowe 2010
Couple a day
Binge drinker
Heavy everyday
drinker
No drinking
Occasional drink
Stopped at 6 weeks
First Trimester
Chart Title
Examples of Variability from Brain Damage
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Chronological Age
Emotional Age
Expressive Language
Social Maturity
Executive Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading Comprehension
Jody Allen Crowe 2010
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Emotional Age
Expressive
Language
Social Maturity
Executive
Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading
Comprehension
Our court system is looking at this adolescent through this lens.
When functionally, we should be looking at this…..
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Chronological Age
Emotional Age
Expressive
Language
Social Maturity
Executive
Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading
Comprehension
Couple a day
Binge drinker
Heavy everyday
drinker
No drinking
Occasional drink
Stopped at 6 weeks
First Trimester
Chart Title
Stage 3 or 4
Jody Allen Crowe 2010
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2
4
6
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10
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16
Chronological Age
Emotional Age
Expressive Language
Social Maturity
Executive Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading Comprehension
Couple a day
Binge drinker
Heavy everyday
drinker
No drinking
Occasional drink
Stopped at 6 weeks
First Trimester
Chart Title
Jody Allen Crowe 2010
Stage 4
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2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
Chronological Age
Emotional Age
Expressive Language
Social Maturity
Executive Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading Comprehension
Examples of Variability from Brain Damage
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
20
Chronological Age
Emotional Age
Expressive Language
Social Maturity
Executive Functions
Sexual Maturity
Math Skills
Memory Skills
Reading Decoding
Reading Comprehension
Jody Allen Crowe 2010
Crowe 2010
Stage 0
No prenatal
exposure to
alcohol
Stage 1Prenatal exposure to alcohol with loss of
potential not observable with current tools
Stage 2Prenatal exposure to alcohol resulting in detectible lowered
academic, social and emotional intelligence.
Stage 3Prenatal exposure to alcohol resulting
in observable exhibitions of brain damage behaviors, which result in
academic failure, interrupted school experience, psychological diagnoses,
criminal behaviors, depression
Crowe 2010
Stage 4Prenatal exposure to alcohol
resulting in physical manifestation and observable exhibitions of Stage 3 academic and social brain damage
behaviors
Crowe 2010
Stage 5Prenatal exposure to alcohol resulting in miscarriage, stillborn, SIDS, death
due to organ failure damage from prenatal exposure to alcohol.
Not all prenatally exposed children,
adolescents, and adults are violent.
But……
Most violent children,
adolescents, and adults have been
prenatally exposed to alcohol.
In my professional opinion:
Reservation Gangs
The Hidden Cost
Crow Wing County Jail - December 2007
94% of the inmates had mothers who
drank alcohol
5 interviews – 16 siblings, children,
spouses prenatally exposed
2005
Forrest L. Willey Good Citizenship
Award 1974
Minnesota and Wisconsin
Study
Interviews of mothers, family members of the
victims, police officers involved in situation,
local historians, visits to location, news reports,
and public defenders or other knowledgeable
people.
Grand Rapids, MN
David Black
Age 15
Killed school administrator, injured targeted
tormentor
Mother heavy alcoholic. Drank heavily
through three pregnancies.
Tomah, Wisconsin
Dickie Anderson
14 years old
Killed principal
Mother binged on weekends. Was drunk at
wedding when pregnant with Dickie.
Had a daughter who was “not smart”.
Cold Spring, Minnesota
Jason McLaughlin
15 years old
Killed two students
Had prior assault with paintball weapon
against postal worker.
Father deputy sheriff
Mother initially not truthful about alcohol
use.
Red Lake, Minnesota
Jeff Weise
16 years old, alternative school
Killed two at grandfather’s house, took police car to
school, rammed school doors, killed five students and two
adults and wounded 15 then committed suicide when
confronted by police.
Mother in coma from alcohol-related car accident
Met with mother – heavy prenatal exposure of all her kids.
Her mother was alcoholic.
One of two mothers portrayed as alcoholic in media.
Cazenovia, Wisconsin
Eric Hainstock
14 years old, special education EBD
Killed principal
Mother lost her parental rights early in his
life due to heavy alcohol use.
Court records provide evidence of heavy
alcohol use.
Nationwide Probability Study
Secret Services study with
additional shooters. High risk factors of the mother
Behaviors of the shooter
Percentage of shooters fitting
FASD profile.
Harris and Klebold
Adam Lanza
2012
Sandy Hook Elementary School
20 years old
Killed mother at home. Killed 26 at school–
committed suicide
Various school experiences, special ed, home
schooled.
“significant mental health issues”
Asperger at 13, sensory integration issues, OCD
No ‘Grieving Mother’ syndrome
Adam Lanza
A philtrum guide
developed by
Washington State
FAS Diagnostic and
Prevention Network
Dr. Carl Bell
psychiatrist at Jackson Park Hospital's
Family Medicine Clinic in Chicago. Dr.
Bell studied 611 poor and black patients
living in three South Side zip codes.
Youth and adults.
49% with Ndisorders. 38 percent clinical
profile of FASD.
Mystery Man
Red Flags Father died when mother
was 7 months pregnant
Mother had divorced first husband
No definitive indication that mother drank during pregnancy
Testimony in divorce of third marriage - mother throwing bottles at third husband
Mystery man had problems through adolescence and adulthood
Mystery man assaulted his mother and brother with a knife
Mystery man had police record and psychologist report indicating characteristics common to FASD
Mystery man had unrealistic fantasies of importance
Mystery Man
Mystery Man
Three pictures of
Mystery man as
teenager and as
young marine
Compare
A philtrum guide
developed by
Washington State
FAS Diagnostic and
Prevention Network
Mystery Man
Full Blood BrotherNo Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol
Heavy Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol
Nobody Asked the Question!Lee Harvey Oswald
We don’t have a clue as to how much prenatal exposure to
alcohol is effecting our society.
jodyallencrowe@healthybrainsforchildren.org
www.healthybrainsforchildren.org