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

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thetonestarr said:

No, you were presenting a highly biased opinion based on one possible explanation. And you're still getting stuck on the false assumption that "legal" equals "right". Just because you cross borders into another nation doesn't automatically make the way you once believed and lived suddenly morally wrong. It's now illegal, yes, but it's not necessarily wrong. Some laws exist because the situation in that certain locality is different. Did you know it's illegal to wear high-heeled shoes without a permit in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California? Does that mean that a person that enters the city wearing high-heels is suddenly a bad person? Absolutely not, and you'd be a complete fool to say so! In Carmel's case, high-heels are illegal because the town is extremely compact, extremely busy, and has uneven walkways, so people wearing high-heels would frequently turn their ankles. Making it illegal to wear them makes it easy to protect the city from being sued when someone twists their ankle.

In Germany's case, they don't feel that homeschooling is a sufficient enough method of acquiring education - not because they think it's "wrong" to homeschool your children, but because they want to be able to control the quality of education that everybody in their country receives.

There's also the chance that the family was merely visiting the country and didn't even know the education laws. Legally, ignorance is not an excuse, but morally? You can't morally fault someone for doing something they had no clue was illegal.

Finally, there are no proper forests south of Berlin that are sufficiently big enough for a man and his son to live in, either, and definitely nothing large enough that the boy wouldn't stumble across dozens of other roads, farms, and towns along the way into Berlin along a two-week long trip. So if he did make this trek, it's perfectly logical to believe they'd have come from other countries originally.

 

Anyways, the ACTUAL most logical and likely explanation is that the family was visiting, whether for only a short vacation or for a year-long job assignment, it doesn't matter. But they probably weren't permanent residents of Germany, Poland, or the Czech Republic. The father was probably there when the mother died, or else under an extreme amount of stress when she died and he received the news. If he was there, he possibly took on a head injury himself and suffered brain damage. Otherwise, the shock of the situation caused him to mentally crack, and he freaked out. Either way, he was probably extremely mentally unstable and took their child and fled into the woods.

You are aware that your last paragraph makes the possibility of homeschooling seem quite unlikely, no? It also makes the possibility of child abuse very probable. And we go back to what I originally said.