
Shavaun Scott discusses the systemic failures that may have contributed to the tragic death of Celeste Rivas Hernandez.
Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott has spent more than thirty years in forensic mental health. She doesn't start with the crime prosecutors allege. She starts with the trajectory — and traces every system that allegedly broke down along the way. David Anthony Burke was homeschooled in Houston. The only music allowed in his home was gospel until he was thirteen. His mother was his teacher, his entire social world, and the person who reportedly encouraged him to start making music. There was no intermediary between a restrictive household and the unrestricted digital access that followed. By seventeen, Burke was signed to Darkroom and Interscope Records. Touring internationally. Generating real revenue. Still a teenager. The people around him were apparently not there to raise him — they were there to keep the product moving. Scott examines what that specific sequence allegedly does to a developing mind. Isolation during the years when peer socialization typically forms the foundation of emotional regulation. A sudden leap from total control to total freedom with no bridge between them. Financial power without the emotional infrastructure to manage it. An entourage built around…
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