Reply #181: True, the mother spoke to the press

[Lone_Star_Dem]

However the impression that they were friends is created here and not in the article that I provided.

David himself said, "I was messing around with someone I thought I knew.". "But I guess I should have known him better." If anything that implies that they were acquaintances and not friends.

The article doesn't imply that they were hanging out together nor that they were friends. For some reason that's a concept that's been created by this thread. Perhaps it's due to the fact that reporter spoke to Matthew's mother rather than him directly.

We'll never know what Matthew said that promoted this, but I'm sure you're correct and he'll be more conscious of his words in the future. For all we know David could have just been hypersensitive and taken Matthew's words the wrong way. We don't have enough information to know for sure. Whatever the full details of the event, I doubt that David will be twisting any body parts on people he doesn't know well enough in the future. Perhaps he'll learn to respect the court system even if his mother doesn't. If they can learn from the experience then it was a step forward toward their becoming mature adults.