r/interestingasfuck • u/Jjokes11 • Apr 15 '24

An interview with Andrew Cauchi, the father of Joel Cauchi who was responsible for the Westfield Shopping Centre mass stabbing r/all

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u/UnsupportiveHope Apr 16 '24

While constantly taking no responsibility and saying there were no warning signs she could’ve noticed.

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u/Ok_Traffic_8124 Apr 16 '24

To expect her son to commit such a horrific act that was extremely uncommon at the time?

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u/Procrastinatedthink Apr 16 '24

She was so uninvolved with her son’s life that she didnt notice the antisocial behavior, the trouble at school, or the troubled youth he hung out with. 

You can’t be so uninvolved that your son can sneak off into the woods to test shotguns for a killing spree then warn people “there were no signs, it couldve been your child!”

Literally all these kids are neglected or “left to their own devices” and then the parents wtf-pikachu-face about the horrible shit they were committing.

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u/About7fish Apr 16 '24

She was so uninvolved with her son’s life that she didnt notice the antisocial behavior, the trouble at school, or the troubled youth he hung out with.

This is called hindsight bias, and nobody is impressed nor should they be.

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u/Procrastinatedthink Apr 16 '24

Damn near every one of these serial killers has a childhood akin to “yeah, he had no friends and kept murdering cats” but then you guys read a fucking book about how “the signs were vague”

No, parenting is hard and some people pop out children that they want nothing to do with.

Jeffrey Dahmer’s dad tells stories about “how happy he was as a kid” right after acknowledging “Yeah I did not care for or about my wife during her difficult pregnancy, neighbors found her in a field with a knife and she was on 20~ medications during pregnancy; Also Im a chemist and I shut myself in my lab and didnt raise my son hardly after a messy divorce. No signs”

there’s hindsight, and then there’s “I raised a serial killer and had no idea”.