Where did you hear he was a Communist? I think just a kid who did a stupid thing. Did not deserve to be beaten causing extensive neurological damage.
The parents are in there own nightmare trying to process this entire thing.....so they're going to lash out as we have seen and heard. Who wouldn't if your kid was kidnapped and held for over a year....only to finally hear he's in a coma ..and then worse that your sons brain is basically dead and dying......there's no come back from that ...and the parents know this. Just such a senseless happening...that could have been avoided.