Millions of kids are the victims of these extremely bitter custody proceedings. The parents duke it out for years, oblivious to the destruction of their children’s souls that it causes. In this case, who knows? She certainly should not have absconded to Europe with the kid, and sometimes courts bring down the hammer when a parent does that; that appears to be what happened here. Since this happened, the maternal grandmother has also gone off online. For all we know, they’re all nuts. Doesn’t absolve the kid from what he did, and I hope Florida goes for the death penalty, but I strongly suspect that there was more than one architect of the disaster that this kid’s mind became
Step parents are not the answer. They can help but the kid has to be a bit open minded too much for some.