Not accusing,speculating,there is a big difference. I "accused" the step father to show Illbay there are two possible sides to the story,if one reads without blinders on.
One key thing that bothers me,I don't see any qoutes from the kid....maybe it was a school yard beating,and he needs to cover up that to remove the risk of future beetings?
I'll wait for the evidence to come in before "judging".
I agree there are other possibilities, and I would tend to see things your way if this kid was six or seven. But he's ELEVEN...QUITE old enough to know what happened to him and who did it.