See my post for info about this bizarre person.
Your article certainly does explain a lot, and confirms my initial impression of this needy young man, who feels compelled, predestined even, to help people by any means necessary. This sounds like a DiCapprio Movie Script. Leo would play Ashoka, Meryl Streep or Mia Farrow playing the English Aristocrat Mom, and Robert DeNiro would play a nondescript bureaucrat as The Bio Dad. I wondered why each article kept pointing out that he was The Bio Dad. Now I get it. I wish somebody would interview Joni Mitchell about that time in her life, it may temporarily take her mind off some of her health problems.