ZitatNikolas Cruz had just broken up with his girlfriend, who had been cheating on him, and he'd gotten into a fight with another boy. He'd drawn a "Nazi symbol" on his book bag. And Broward mental health authorities were worried that his chronic depression was worsening.
It was Aug. 28, 2016, and Cruz - who since has admitted to perpetrating one of the worse school shootings in U.S. history - took to his arms with a knife.
"Mr. Cruz was on Snapchat cutting both of his arms," the Florida Department of Children & Families' abuse hotline was told at 1:48 p.m. "Mr. Cruz has fresh cuts on both his arms. Mr. Cruz stated he plans to go out and buy a gun."
In the short report, Cruz, then 18, was listed as an "alleged victim" of medical neglect and inadequate supervision; his adoptive mother, then-68-year-old Lynda Cruz, the "alleged perpetrator."
DCF's investigation was completed the following Nov. 12. The agency concluded that Cruz had not been mistreated by his mother, and that he was receiving adequate care from a counselor at Henderson Mental Health, and was attending school.
"Henderson came out and assessed the [victim and] found him to be stable enough not to be hospitalized," the report said.
Cruz had been diagnosed with autism, a neurological disorder that often leads to social awkwardness and isolation, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.
The three-page report detailing Cruz's encounter with DCF in Aug. 2016 was released after the agency filed a request Friday asking a Broward Circuit Judge to make its history with the family public. Following the massacre, DCF wrote, much of Cruz's confidential history was revealed: that he had been adopted, that he had a lengthy history of mental illness, that DCF had investigated his safety. Some of the information in the "public domain," DCF wrote, was inaccurate.
ZitatNikolas Cruz had just broken up with his girlfriend, who had been cheating on him, and he'd gotten into a fight with another boy. He'd drawn a "Nazi symbol" on his book bag. And Broward mental health authorities were worried that his chronic depression was worsening.
It was Aug. 28, 2016, and Cruz - who since has admitted to perpetrating one of the worse school shootings in U.S. history - took to his arms with a knife.
"Mr. Cruz was on Snapchat cutting both of his arms," the Florida Department of Children & Families' abuse hotline was told at 1:48 p.m. "Mr. Cruz has fresh cuts on both his arms. Mr. Cruz stated he plans to go out and buy a gun."
In the short report, Cruz, then 18, was listed as an "alleged victim" of medical neglect and inadequate supervision; his adoptive mother, then-68-year-old Lynda Cruz, the "alleged perpetrator."
DCF's investigation was completed the following Nov. 12. The agency concluded that Cruz had not been mistreated by his mother, and that he was receiving adequate care from a counselor at Henderson Mental Health, and was attending school.
"Henderson came out and assessed the [victim and] found him to be stable enough not to be hospitalized," the report said.
Cruz had been diagnosed with autism, a neurological disorder that often leads to social awkwardness and isolation, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.
The three-page report detailing Cruz's encounter with DCF in Aug. 2016 was released after the agency filed a request Friday asking a Broward Circuit Judge to make its history with the family public. Following the massacre, DCF wrote, much of Cruz's confidential history was revealed: that he had been adopted, that he had a lengthy history of mental illness, that DCF had investigated his safety. Some of the information in the "public domain," DCF wrote, was inaccurate.
No one seems to have caught on to the potential significance of the adoption.
Rumor has it that: Nikolas and his brother Zachery were adopted from outside the country because of the adoptive parents ages. Lynda was about 50 at the time. Nikolas Cruz was adopted at age 2 along with his 2-month-old brother, Zachary…Nikolas and Zachary shared a biological mother but have different fathers. Nikolas has had behavior problems from an early age. The adoptive father died about 10 years ago. The adoptive mother died about 1 year ago. Niklas's brother has been picked up and held for mental observation
There is a possibility that bother brothers were adopted from eastern Europe. Eastern European orphanages are known for containing any children with fetal alcohol syndrome and/or attachment disorder. That combination could explain Nikolas's behavior through out his life. With the best of care fetal alcohol syndrome does not have a good prognosis.