It's not exactly hard to point to these incidents and say "the damn kid did it because he's 10 and has parents that are absent due to jobs or mental health reasons".
The boy won't get the help he needs because it's not there. And there's a certain political group that gets off on the idea of people having no help, because they didn't need it and did fine.
I meant more in their own minds. They are lacking far more than just empathy too.