Just watched it today, I didn't see it from the beginning but I saw most of it. It's good.
***** Spoiler Warning******
But Canyarion, the kid isn't "poor", he's an evil killer who pretends to have multiple personality disorder when they're convicting him in court. It works too, they deem him insane so all he has to do is go to a hospital for a few weeks and then he'll be let off free after that instead of being in prison for many years or life. Then, at the very end, he reveals to his lawyer (Richard Gere), that the M.P.D. was just an act to get off the murder charges for free.
He's a diobolical genius.
Sorry Crono, didn't want to ruin the ending for anyone else 