I was physically, (not sexually), assaulted repeatedly by my father and sustained very real, very permanant injuries from it. In my youth I too was violent, although never to my children... so I do understand that this low life probably has a wealth of unsorted out psychological problems. HOWEVER... anyone who commits a crime against someone, espeically of this nature, deserves everything they get and although I hope that they address his issues in prison and that when he leaves he can live a better life and all that, I think he basically deserves everything that he gets, so I've absolutely no sympathy for him other than to say if his childhood abuse story is true then I'm truly sorry it happened to him, but it's not an excuse and it's actually quite offensive to use it as such to the millions of other people who have had similarly awful childhoods and choose NOT to behave like this.