Many of the still-grieving parents who lost their children to Adam Lanza’s murderous rampage had no interest in reading Monday’s official report on the mass killing, saying it could offer them no solace.
“We actually haven’t looked,” said Matthew Hubbard, whose freckle-faced daughter, Catherine, was among the 20 children killed in the massacre.
“Our family has chosen not to read it.”
Donna Soto, mother of slain teacher Vicki Soto, called the report “yet another blow that our family has been dealt” and said it doesn’t answer her family’s questions.
“While others search for the answer as to why this happened, we search for the how,” Donna wrote on her Facebook page in advance of the report’s release.
“How can we live without Vicki? How do we celebrate Christmas without Vicki? How do we go on every day missing a piece of our family? There is nothing in the report that will answer those for us.”
David Wheeler, whose son Benjamin was killed, said the report was “nothing new” because police and State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III has kept all the families in the loop.
“The only difficult part of today was the extra media attention,” he said.
The families were able to read portions of the document in advance of its Monday release.