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

Oi wpmder if he got really into the foredst with his dad or if he dragged him thwers to kill him an srtuff.

You do realize that by trying to take this kid's child away you are in fact trying to force your culture on to him.  A culture he rejected by moving away from it. 

Would you say that if a man from Australia decides he likes aborigine culture better and leaves Sydney to live like the aborigines with his son he was abusing him?

He rejected modern culture and moved to the wilderness with his son to start a new culture, at an age where parents can legally make choices for their children.

Either you respect other cultures or you don't.  The minute you try and pick and choose you AREN'T picking to tolerate other cultures and instead only tolerating cultures that aren't too far off your own.

And I mean really, I can think of many places with much worse cultural choices then that based on survivalism, like the many cultures where women have zero power, or where racism and anti-semtism exist and outright executions of people who slightly fall out of the norm.

Ya know, you're quick to jump on people for the silliest things. Sometimes the stuff you post are so out of whack I dunno whether to reply to them or avoid you altogether. Like the other day, you called me a rapist out of the blue, and months before that you called me intolerant against homosexuals. And I think you were banned not so long ago for calling someone a troll or something? Just chillax man. Stop being so aggresively awkward all the time.

Anywho, this story is quite interesting. If anything, the kid probably has some awesome survival instincts ... along with a very troubled mind that went through so much mental, emotional abuse over the year.

This!

@OP: Pretty crazy story.

...So the kid can't remember anything? That seems kinda strange :/  If he was 12 when he was "taken" he should remember where he lived at least

Maybe the bad memories are being suppressed?

Did no one else get the feeling that this story is eerily similar to the movie 'Hanna'?

But if they were memories from before the abduction

Would that make them "good" memories?

Nothing is surprising nowadays.You just need to learn and adapt to this rule : Shit will always happen.

How do you know the boy had any previous life, previous friends, previous anything? They may have been regularly on the move prior to this, or maybe the boy was extremely introverted and kept to himself. Or maybe they lived in farm country and he would have had to travel a mile down the road just to get to the next neighbors, who just so happened to be childless.

And you don't HAVE to attend a proper school, if you can be legally homeschooled. Granted, this boy probably wasn't LEGALLY homeschooled, but that doesn't mean his father didn't still educate him.

You people are jumping to so many conclusions here.

I like to think that the boy's father was a former CIA agent who had retired after completing a huge mission and bringing in a major crimelord. However, said crimelord escaped from prison a year later and swore revenge against the agent, so the CIA had him and his family moved to Germany under witness protection. They lived there for a couple years before they were finally hunted down again, and the mother was murdered, though her murder was staged to look like a traffic accident. The accident was supposed to kill all three of them, but the father and son managed to escape with only minor injuries as their car and the mother burned until it was impossible to recognize anything among the wreckage. The father had no choice but to flee into the wilderness with their son, to disappear entirely.