They need to be more polite than we do in telling you how you sound.
Considering that original reports said it sounded like the family were trying to treat his diabetes via religion, making things up about him and them beyond that is bizarre.
>Considering that original reports said it sounded like the family were trying to treat his >diabetes via religion, making things up about him and them beyond that is bizarre.
That is my #2 hypothesis. The reason I put it #2 is the parents would have no reason to conceal what they were doing to the son. There is no shame in diabetes or trying to treat it with Christian voodoo (in their minds) even if they imagine it is demon-caused. Surely the boy's friends would have been aware of what was happening. Religious people do sometimes let their kids die rather than admit a failure of their religious magic. Perhaps that was the shame, the implied lack of piety, and hence healing competence. You would would think when he was on death's door, love would overcome pride and make the parents try something else, but religion can make people do strange things.
A very strong piece of evidence for this interpretation is that one symptom of diabetes is losing weight without trying. The boy could have lost weight simply from being denied treatment, not because the parents deliberated fasted him. Also the fact this medical condition was mentioned in the original report suggests the police might have thought it germane based on the something a doctor casually examining the corpse might have said. It might also have come up as a partial confession.
Again if newspaper reporters interviewed neighbours, they would have seen signs of this.
Religious parents tossing a gay son onto the street without further contact is so common it does no even make the news. Killing your kids out of strange religious medical beliefs is considerably rarer. I think most of the people here have the probabilities backwards. The problem may be you think I am accusing the son of something shameful or exotic. In my view, I am saying nothing more shameful than if he were left handed it might explain why his parents murdered him.
The word "speculate" means "a form of theory or conjecture without firm evidence", it is making guesses. It is laying out some competing possibilities to guide analysis of the facts. It does not mean "accuse" or "assert".
It is noteworthy that in both my conjecture and yours the ultimate villain is fundamentalist religious superstition.
The precise address and name of the family are in theory withheld, but not that well. I hope an investigative reporter digs into any relevant religious beliefs.
At trial, what I hope will come up will be just how much resistance (if any) did the boy put up?.
To what extent did the parents block the boy from contacting someone outside the family?
If either of our conjectures prove true, the church that brainwashed the parents is the real culprit. It should be punished and blocked from repeating the crime. If it refuses, all it assets should be seized.
