Boy Forced to Live in Forest with Father for 5 Years Found in Germany

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Player1x3 said:

How do you even know he abused him? We have very little info on the story, and the only thing his father could be charged with, is for putting his kid out of school

Putting the kid out of school, plus isolating him from his friends and from society as a whole, plus making him live in the woods with no roof over his head, no means of proper hygene, no food other than what they could find or steal (he most likely exposed him to criminal activites also), no access to medical facilities, putting the kid at risk of being attacked by wild animals, essentially making the kid live like a wild animal... I'm quite sure this qualifies as child abuse. It's no different if he had kept him locked up in a cage in his basement. The fact that the kid can't even remember much of the ordeal (or before it), shows that he has been seriously traumatized.

Of course, this is true providing it's not all one big joke, like balloon boy.