They literally profit from lying and misleading in the headline and the opening sentence.
Agreed. And for all we know, the 16-year-old ran away from his parents instead of being abandoned.
I once read a article in a newspaper referring to a kid that shot an arrow into the sky, only to be hit by his own arrow (forget if it killed him) as a “bloodbath
.”
Hyperbole is an understatement when it comes to our media.