Updated: Friday, July 12 2013, 06:50 PM CDT
"I just think that it got taken out of context and it's been blown out of proportion," said 19-year-old Justin Carter.???????????
The Texas teen accused of making a terroristic threat on Facebook is speaking out for the first time. Justin Carter was just reunited with his family in Austin. He was jailed after making a threatening Facebook post almost five months ago.???????????
Today, Justin made his first comments after being released.?
"Right now I'm just taking it one step at a time," said Justin.?
That's easier to do after the teen walked out of the Comal County Jail in New Braunfels on Thursday. An anonymous donor gave his family $500,000 for his bail.?
"It's been so much to take in all at once after being deprived of so much, you know, and I'm just really elated now that I'm out to enjoy everything," said Justin.?
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Justin turned 19 while behind bars. His family says other inmates beat him up, stole his belongings and guards put him in solitary confinement because of his depression.?
"Disbelief. I still kind of don't believe it, even though he's standing here," said Jack Carter, Justin's father.?
"We're just so, so very happy that he's just outside and we don't have to worry anymore about him being hurt or not knowing what's going on with him anymore. And for any parent, that's just such a relief," said Jennifer Carter, Justin's mother.?
Justin's ordeal started in February, when he got into an online argument on Facebook. According to the indictment, that's when Justin said he would "shoot up a kindergarten", and "watch the blood rain down."?
The teen followed up the violent language with "JK" or just kidding, but Austin police didn't find it funny.?
"I just want to make it clear that people should be very, very careful what they say and it's been recorded all the time. If you say it on any website anywhere you can get in trouble for something that's not, that's not something you should get in trouble for, and I just want people to be warned," said Justin.?
If convicted, the 19-year-old faces two to ten years in prison.
By Bettie Cross
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