I find this story very, very sad for everyone involved.

Of course, we don't know all the details, so it's impossible to pass any kind of judgement on anyone.

It makes me wonder, though, if the boy had some idea or had heard something that made him start looking through websites with pictures of abducted children. I mean, that's not typically a seventeen-year-old's preference in internet surfing.

It seems rather odd to me that he contacted the authorities instead of just bringing it up to his mom. I mean, he's seventeen ... in less than a year he will be a legal adult, and can live with or find anyone he chooses to. It seems if he had a good relationship with his mom, he would have either talked to her about it or chosen to do nothing until he was eighteen, then found his father.

Sad for everyone ... dad, mom, son. Too bad adults just can't act like adults for the sake of their children.