This may provide a clue:
"against the boy's father"
Or maybe I'm just making rash assumptions.
Yeah, missed that in the final sentence of the article. I say leave the boy alone until he’s eighteen and let him decide.
This article is sloppy writing. The father should have been mentioned in the first or second sentence. There are more and more articles around where one must read and read to find key information that should be provided in the first paragraph. I kept rereading the top of the article looking for the other side of the dispute and it isn’t mentioned until the final sentence.