Matia Reyes’s background and childhood suggest that criminality and the criminal mind set are learned through out childhood. Reyes once told a psychiatrist he was sold to his father for four hundred dollars and by the age seven he was sexually abused by two older boys and left in a river. By the time Reyes was seventeen years old he was living out of a van and working as a delicatessen clerk in East Harlem. All this evidence suggests to me that Reyes learned the criminal lifestyle through his childhood. Though initially in 1989 Reyes was not charged with the raping of the jogger but will later confess and prove that he was involved through DNA evidence. I believe the police had little investigation into the incident and went solely off a hunch