The fact that stuck out for me in the reporting was that the father had divorced the mother in 2008 and was “living nearby in a community of multi-million dollar homes with his new wife.” That’s cold.
If ever a boy needed a father in the home, it was a highly intelligent, autistic boy. Didn’t he understand how disruptive his actions would be for an already troubled child? Couldn’t he at least have stayed until the kid was grown and settled in some kind of job or halfway house?
An article I read earlier stated that the father was devastated by the divorce.
It wasn’t HIS doing.