You must have read a different article than I did. This is clearly a family grieving deeply for two members who they believe have fallen victim to mental illness. They provided insight and opted to acknowledge both victim and perpetrator as mentally ill to provided whatever sense there may be to what happened. I didn't see any back patting, any demands the boy go free. In fact they openly dispute his abuse claims and only say that his own mental illness and his mothers were a factor and explain a family effort predating the crime to help an ill member, including what is clearly now acknowledged as a flawed judgment call to send her youngest son to aide her. Perhaps you should re-read. What would you have them do? Call for a death penalty? Permanent incarceration with no mental health care? Pretend nothing was wrong before the crime?