The shooter responsible for the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which took the lives of 20 first-graders and six adults, was interested in pedophilia, new documents reveal.
Although no evidence suggests he sexually abused a child, Adam Lanza was fascinated by children and other mass shootings of young people, including Columbine, documents released by the FBI on Tuesday show.
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The release shows a document was found on Lanza’s computer promoting pedophiles’ rights and the “liberation of children.” Additionally, a screenplay depicting the relationship of a 10-year-old boy with a 30-year-old man was found.
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The FBI was also told by an unidentified woman who befriended Lanza online that he held the belief that adult-child sexual relationships were mutually beneficial. She also said that Lanza viewed mass shootings as a “symptom caused by a broken society” and that it’s possible Lanza believed the 20-year-old was protecting children from “harmful influences” of adults when he committed the shooting.
Lanza, who also killed his mother before the school shooting, committed suicide when police arrived at the school.
