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

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TheLivingShadow said:

Here's what I think...IF the kid has indeed been living in the forest for 5 years with his father, I believe the teenager is responsible for his father's death, i.e. he killed him.

Like a poster above said, there are incongruencies in his story. Despite what he says, I think he does remember some of his prior life. After 5 years he must have had enough with his lifestyle and his crazy father (to go live isolated from society in the woods is crazy by definition...though it doesn't really matter by then because crazy is relative to society). He must have wanted to go back to the modern world and experience all that he had been separated from.

His father obviously disagreed. They must have gotten into a fight, but the boy wasn't so small anymore. He ended up killing his father, I want to say in an almost "accidental" way during the fight. After realizing what he had done, he must have panicked for a few hours. Then, once calm, he grabbed his father's compass and threw him off a hill so it would appear he "fell in the woods". Then he journed back to society.

Anyway, that's what I think.

Yes, this can also be a possibility. In that case I'd consider it self defence, and let him off.