Thanks for your support guys. The boy and his parents feel bad and have apologized profusely. The kid has been punished but the parents keep going on and on about what a good kid he is, how he's an honor roll student, belongs to all these clubs, goes to church and on and on. Sorry but I don't buy it. A "normal" kid doesn't threaten to slice someone's throat in their sleep and then rape their corpse! Hopefully we are just dealing with a stupid childish kid who has been numbed by all the violence that has become common place. Yet part of me keeps thinking only a psychopath could think and say such things.