Witness Testifies Parkland Shooter's Biological Mother Was a Prostitute 

Amen!

Absolutely

Who’s case is this ??? Brenda or Nic??

I'm not too sure about her honesty as there's an important discrepancy in her testimony. She claims she's been sober for 25 years but Cruz is 23. Yet she claims they were doing drugs together with his mother while she was pregnant to Nicholas.

@@audramuth4147 they try to find answers why he did this. You could also say they try to find an excuse for his behavior.. well there’s no excuse for what he did

Watching this after the hour-long testimony of Cruz's older half-sister is heartbreaking. These ladies have been through so much.

reliving do you mean?

Absolutely right on that.......I just hope she learn't her lessons of being bad and living the criminal element life.

​@@kingayy9267She was NOT his sister once he was adopted.

My sister died at age 35 from drugs and alcohol. I wish she’d been a little like this lady.

Amen sister!!!

How many last names did she say?

For every one that finds a way out.....hundreds do not.

@@marlenesouliere6971 I can not help ,but blame the parents. When you raise a child the Right way Love, caring, Kindness and put them 1st your child will do well. I will always believe that.

Amen 🙏

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It’s very true. Works also for animals. My cat still hasn’t over come it.

Wisdom! Such a tragedy he wasn't born with the cognitive ability to process and heal from his wounds.

Couldn’t have said it better.

yes you can see the tremendous type of help she can offer to people from all walks of life who are struggling or have been there and are fighting to get better.

I wouldn't go THAT far... But yes,she is definitely an inspiration to those of those struggling with demons that's she's encountered in her past.

Agree 100%. If there is a heaven, this is the sort of humble, good human being who will get there.

And she's very upfront..I was impressed w her testimony

As do you. Very Respectful comment ma'am

@@alexandersupertramp7353 thank you@

I did not expect this, I cut off the daughters testimony. ...it became a lot. I am very surprised to see this. Where there is addiction there is so much pain.. my aunt wasnt done, we lost her end of last year. Thank god she isnt suffering like she was.

@Cody Barry I'm sorry for your loss. As you said, your aunt isn't suffering anymore. I hope you're doing well.

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She does look pretty good for all that she's been through

NA AND AA 5% success. Orange papers. Smart recovery, refuge recovery. Don't get 13 th stepped

What does this have to do with a psycho killing 37 people come on

It's a shame she had to suck a bunch of sausages and slurp on mushroom tips to get to this point, can't say i respect it

@@SuperEholmes it has absolutely nothing to do with it ! What his mother did had nothing to do with him choosing to murder 17 kids and adults !

@@SuperEholmes you obviously don't realize that is not the way your comment reads...even if that is what you meant. I'm not arguing that you didn't mean that you agreed with the other person, just stating the way you wrote your comment comes across a very different way.

@@SuperEholmes the comment you have now deleted is the comment I was referring to. You are now attempting to redirect my comment, which was a reply to your now deleted comment, to your "for sure" comment and trying to make it seem as if I said "for sure" can be read a different way.....smh

Takes a ton of courage. It’s so impressive to me.

I'm sitting here in South Africa thinking the same thing. She seems such a lovely person and so pretty even in her later years, I hope people can see that drink and drugs can lead to making drastic decisions, but also that you can bear those demons. My heart goes out to her, I hope she has a happy life now

In front of all those judgmental people, some more than others obviously.

Its not as tuff as druggin n prostituting. Soukno

The honesty, she's working the program.. The AA | NA program, that is.

Agreed. However, the majority refuses to accept this fact as a probable explanation for his actions. In reality, his behavior escalated to becoming more disturbed. He never had a chance from utero. Brain damage is exactly what it sounds like.

@@darleneww3670 Yes... It's just a sad case, no matter how you look at it.... And for sure complex!

@@darleneww3670 Very valid point and clinical studies show the damage. Now if we see it from another perspective there should be regulations for procreation. Where is the compassion in society to allow a drug addict the right to procreate and then get rid of the 'unwanted human being' as damaged goods and later on run the risk that this human being with some type of genetic /brain damage harm other members of society. I think future generations will have to face this. As individuals one has the right to self-destruct. FREE WILL but why bring children into the equation.

Fas. Are: typically show wide set eyes, he does t. May e some right lobe damage.

@@darleneww3670 they still know right from wrong. He plotted this out in se- cresy doesn t sound like brain damage.

Simple but not easy.

25 years! Complete turn about.

I dont know...,dont judge for pic, for big or small head,colour,etc..!?

Yes! It is was obvious to me too.

I would agree but it appears that if you do drugs while pregnant you tend to break the baby's brain so. Probably the massacre seemed rational to a broken brain

@@RaistlinM21 a broken brain can just be of chance or genetics as well. this was a true recipe for disaster

Yep. We all have a free will.

You don't understand how important this is because you are more focused on punishment. He will be punished either way. We need to listen and learn to know what causes this horror. Then we can try and fix it.

Boom

I'm a recovering drug addict I've been clean from methamphetamine's since June 2007. I relapsed on pain meds that were prescribed to me in 2015 and I got clean on 10 months later on February 29th 2016. I go ot put on methadone and go to group meetings at Genesis methadone clinic here in Modesto California. Back in 2007 when I stopped using drugs I was almost murdered by being stabbed in my face, both sides of my chest and having my left arm pit area stabbed and slashed all the way open. I nearly bled to death. It happened while I was in the he front seat of my car and the guy was in the back seat of my car I seen him stab me through the rear view mirror in coming down with 2 knives at the same time 3 times. I wanted to change my life for the better. Since 2016 I attend group meeting at the clinic go to counseling twice a month or more I go to outside meeting like AA & NA and work a 12 step recovery program honestly. I've cut off all people that used with me or still use drug or alcohol. My to home is a clean and sober house since we have friends who are also in recovery we do not allow our 29 year old son to drink here forget drunk at a friend's and come home under the influence. He is a great kid and he doesn't drink or use anything that would mess him up to but if he wanted to drink he could have me drop him off at his father's and that would be fine. I be do online in my meetings that are Marathon 24 hours a day meetings and I also attend my international AA meetings with my fiancee of almost 12 years. He is also in recovery for 13 years. We surround ourselves with my people who want to change our lives for the better.. my life is full of health conditions and surgeries and scares like cancer I had in October 2014 and is happening now I will get results on Wednesday if it's bad or benign. I pray it's not the c word. But I have a good life drug free a fairly happy life. I have a daughter who doesn't want a relationship with me since I left her and her brother with their father and grand parents while I was addicted to drugs. I have a lot of regret and hurt. I wish I could take it all back. I love my daughter I was a worthless POS for leaving them. But I'm I wr in the her often and tell her how sorry I am and I Love her and will continue to work on myself a living amends to my children.

Agree. What an impressive lady. May she be blessed for the rest of her life. Love her.

@@carrieanncancino5118 I hope you succeed in that. But what I don’t understand is that they gave you addiction medication knowing your a addict you replace one for the other. If that is what I understand

Ameen

@@sedg03 ohh I see thanks for the explanation it makes sense now

Most are, just trying to earn a living. And it's one of the oldest jobs in history to man. All them sick men out there. Most of them married aswell.

She’s very brave…it’s extremely difficult to admit all that in court and knowing it’s televised.

@@Audrey_L I so agree!!

Ok bleeding heart

I have always thought that he has Fetal Alcohol Syndrome…low set ears, wide set eyes, which are part of the diagnosis.

@@leannesmith9809 me too! So sad!

Much respect. Good on you!

Godspeed.

Shouldn't have succumbed in first place... NO GOD in your life at that time clearly... maybe not now too.

@@halimak625 - Judgy aren't we?

@@wickedcabinboy truth though

Of course it had everything to do with how he turned out!!

Is there a diagnosis for this?

@@Timetravel755 - a diagnosis for what? His mother was, by testimony, an alcoholic and drug addict. The defendant has, I believe, been diagnosed with FAS.

@@wickedcabinboy thank you that's the question was he diagnosed

@@Timetravel755 - from the Orlando Sentinal, date unknown. "Nikolas wasn’t an easy child. He had been diagnosed with a string of disorders and conditions: depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, emotional behavioral disability and autism, records from the state Department of Children and Families show. His mom told deputies he also had obsessive-compulsive disorder and anger issues. He had counselors in school and at home, according to DCF records, and he took medications."

As a nurse myself, I wish she was! She'd make a great one.

Yes

She’s clearly very strong to do this - I think that strength will serve her well.

My thoughts exactly as I watched her. It is clear she is suffering from re-living the past and you can see the stress. I don't see how she couldn't relapse. As strong and committed as I like to think I am, I don't think I would make it if I am honest with myself. I hope, no pray she has someone in her life to lean on for support.

She’s been through much worse than this testimony and she’s been 25 years on the wagon. This won’t drive her back.

Sharing their past help keep them sober. .12 th step in action.

@@jeff95050 certainly won't be from any authorities

Actually, 12 step programs do not have a high rate of success. They resist being studied and announce their success based on the few people it works for, while ignoring the much greater number who drop out.

@@JessBlake2 do more research

@@nuggs9999, I made the comment because I'm familiar with the research. I taught this subject at a graduate level. I also worked, for decades as a clinician with people out of control of substances and helped them change their consumption. And, I studied efficacy of interventions using all results, not just the results of people who reached their goals. You can't ignore the people who drop out and for whom it is not successful, and only talk to the few who stay, and then claim reliable, scientific results. Not to mention that the 12 steps are based on some inaccurate, faulty and unsupported definitions and principles.

@@JessBlake2 12 steps is just a tool, No matter what tool you use, it won't be successful unless you want it hard enough, put the work in, some may need to back it up with medication or therapy. Tools arnt miracle cures.

@@nuggs9999 She's right. 12 step programs help some people. They may even be the best option for certain people. But they are not the best solution, or even a very good one, and it's ridiculous that we are still treating them as the gold standard of addiction treatment just because they market themselves that way. Just because something works sometimes doesn't mean we stop looking for solutions that work better.

And the damage she didn’t care she was doing by using drugs during pregnancy.

Yeah but he was adopted by a couple that did want him as their son. He became an aggressive monster to his birth mother

Being unwanted can lead to dire consequences for that child. Economists found that crime in young men went down in the 1990's approx 20 years after Roe v. Wade became law. It's an awful thing but abortions prevented approx 1/3 of crime statistics under Pres. Clinton.

Elvia I feel your pain but there is no excuse of killing others at all he was wrong.

@@celticwarrior777 he was slothered and damaged in Brenda’s woumb. That is what all of this is about. This woman is talking about what was Brenda doing while pregnant with him, so he came i to this world a deeply damaged individual. These kinds of things cannot be repaired by a Loving home or a swimming pool. Brain damaged, mentally ill, cognitively delayed, he came out looking physically damaged as well and still does. That is also the point of his sister’s testimony.

Dna damaged

Doesn't change the fact that he was exposed to crack, cocaine, weed, alcohol while in utero . That can't hardly be a good thing from a development perspective for any baby regardless of how they are ultimately raised. We really don't know what his life was like once adopted.

@@celticwarrior777 That, and even if he was removed from a bad environment, he's still left with his feelings of resentment and being unwanted by his biological mother, even if his adoptive parents had shown him love. That's a very common feeling for children who have been adopted. I have to wonder if that had played any part in Cruz's actions that day.

@@dianad3080 That too, for sure.

She seems like she'd be a cool aunt or neighbor to have. She probably gives good, straightforward advice, too.

I hope she will read all those nice comments!! 🙏💕👏🏼

Seeing the picture of Zachary as a newborn, you can tell he was born addicted, also. It's in his huge eyes.

Fetal alcohol syndrome?

Stillbirth, why did this not happen! No food 4 fetus, no vegetables, no fruit. No 3 meals a day, no water!

@@annarye1012 I don't know but there is a lesson in everything. It seems he made it very far in life when everything was stacked against him. He obviously needed a higher level of care.

Her and his sister are very beautiful people

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@Chelsea Marie - There is some debate about whether it's God that saves or not. But I wish you continued recovery.

the honest unadorned truth with no pride no shame just telling it like it is is just incredible. all the people in that room that judge such people have no idea the kind of strength and character it takes to climb back out from a place like that.

@@wickedcabinboy no debate those who know God know he saves . You don’t know he saves because YOU don’t know him

@@goviralgo6418 - Do tell me how one knows a being who doesn't exist except in the minds and imaginations of believers. Do you *KNOW* Santa Claus?

@@danbillington man that dude would do worse next time if that ever happened. Some of us had horrible lives but we became good people and better parents than ours were to raise a better generation.

@@danbillington no he has brain damage that will not help.

Nope same as it ever was, in fact crime went down after abortion was legalized so were actually experiencing less moral rot as you say

@@spamgarbage6999 it's not just one singular thing. Lack of fathers, entitled mothers, God taken out of society etc.

This is not justification or excuses. This is what happened. This is the WHY. At least part of it. It is so important to know these backgrounds so that we, as a society, can try to be aware of what happens to children and try to prevent this horrible stuff from happening. You can't lump all trauma into one cookie-cutter trajectory. People are different. People cope with things differently. He will receive his punishment, but we all need to learn from this.

Well obviously. But when they do turn bad, you can see the trajectory.

Was the shooter ever diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?

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Cruz wasn’t raised by his mother.

Ding ding ding

Actions have consequences. Cause & effect.

Just and you to know that you're a great person and we need more people like you with that mentality.

@@danbillington Wtf are you smoking dude?

I live in UK now but I lived in the U.S for many years, it’s mind boggling to me that young, unstable people have such easy access to powerful weapons.

ugh, I forgot she signed for him to have guns. Unbelievable. She knew his history and challenges and personality, how on earth could she think he could handle having guns.

Snowball effect. Ripples ....and they say drugs don’t hurt anyone but the one using them.

there are good people everywhere those cops are what you call good cops

Well said

You do know he was adopted at an early age

Yeah....He had a choice to change his MIND.

@@Cgh432 didn't know that..thanks!

@@Cgh432 the bond between a child nd mother and/or primary caregiver is very crucial to a child ‘S development. Oftentimes, research shows that without a secure motherly attachment, a child are more than likely to develop difficulties in building trusts, forming relationships and healthy social interactions with the world, even with loving adopted parents.

My dude.. literally NOBODY is making excuses for him or justifying what he did.

@@brandonayala4605 I don’t think people understand what this trial is about 😂

@@katle4930 100% I’m tired of all these brainless people in the comments jumping into conclusions when they have zero sense of what’s happening or how the legal field works. And there is so many of them.

@@brandonayala4605 Then what is the point of having them testify?

@Boston Gal bro they died before the massacre

I saw that too lol

What did she survive?? Being a willful prostitute & drug addict? Wow, you admire that?

She said she committed many felonies and imprisoned many times. That year was most likely a last resort to behavior not changing. For not learning in rehab.

This. They were what he is not.

@@danbillington - This isn't what I meant when I said you should write more fiction.

She got married multiple times.

Marriage, she old school

😂😂😂

I’m married. I have a first, middle, and surname…..not the entire phone book. Lol.

@@pommiebears you've only been married 1x right? It seems as though she listed every last name she ever held due to multiple marriages.

Addicts give up on theirselves.

You’re sick you know that?

We will have many more babies like this. Roe v. Wade was overturned

How about "a strong argument for abortion" PERIOD?! His mother should have swallowed!

@@denischabriddell986 keep telling yourself this.

@@lawrence09151 Sounds horrible, I know. But these kids have problems. If not health problems, then its mental issues. Look what they are costing society?

Fetal Alcohal Syndrome is a fact + the head shape shows early. Wiggly shaken babies, crying. Unconsolable, no food eaten when pregnant, imagine, no food 4 baby in utro. Belly starved. Why does Stillborn not take starved babies. Where r the social workers ?the Poluce thw doctors, to study more years of F DRUG SYNDROME. Throught a whole life🔎👀😰🏡🏋️‍♀️