This is a terrible tragedy. And so are some of these short-sighted and meanspirited comments.
Do you think the parents really just ignored the problem all this time? Of course not. I'm sure they tried everything reasonable to discourage the behaviour and certainly banning him from his 360 was one of those things. I've done that myself when my son's grades were slipping because he wasn't concentrating enough on his homework.
But who could have forseen this?? The child acted in a way way out of line with the punishment. I'm not blaming him, but who runs away from home and (presumably) starves themselves to death because they can't play CoD4 anymore? Someone with some deep seated problems.
Perhaps, in hindsight, the parents could have/should have gone about this differently and that's a thought that will haunt these folks until they die, but they acted in accordance to the way you would with any normal child. Unfortunately it turns out their child wasn't as normal as they thought.
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