However, I can't help but have concerns about the kid's future -- this sort of behavior over a long period screams mental illness -- and sincerely hope that counseling helps.
A happy ending all around, really. Hopefully the teen idiot will have something good come of his counselling and the world will be a slightly better place.
Sociopaths benefit from counseling in that they become better able to fool counselors. We can only hope whoever he goes to realizes this.
To me, it's a bit sociopath-like to be so vindictive about a situation that you know next to nothing about. What's the relationship between the poster and the kid? He most likely knows the boy's past, he knows the family, and yet it's all too easy to forget all that and condemn someone.
If only there were more people in the world like the OP, and less knee jerkers.
However, it still stands that we just don't know enough to make any judgement call. It's in society's hands as it were now anyway, and all the best we can do is hope for something good to come out of this.
Let's say that "it should." and effort to make it that way in our own, personal lives :)