Just about everyone is talking about the Pinellas County mother, 62-year-old Kathleen Steele, who has been charged after her 6-year-old son allegedly beat his infant sister to death.
Friday night Steele bonded out of jail while her son and his 3-year-old brother have been placed in separate foster homes.
Brigit Towey is a licensed mental health counselor and a certified child protection professional. She's the executive director of Life, Beauty and Balance, 10013 Water Works Lane in Riverview. She's certified in trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy and says just because the 6-year-old is young doesn't mean he won't remember what happened.
Towey says the brain remembers everything especially traumatic childhood experiences. She says, "So likely this little boy is either right now frozen in a state of fear -- or fighting -- being aggressive with other people -- verbally aggressive or when we say flight ... he could perhaps be running away ... or looking like a rambunctious child."
[For more of this story, written by Tammie Fields, go to http://www.wtsp.com/news/boy-a...ong-issues/296442798]
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