This poor kid has been living in a miasma of hate and abuse all his life. I can’t imagine the darkness and misery he lived with every day as a matter of course. Now his life is even more ruined than it was before. It’s heartbreaking.
Let’s hope the judicial system can be cool and rational on this. Not knowing the details of the case we can’t pre-judge but with a ten year old kid you’d have to hope for rehabilitation and the chance of a full and productive life.
His father is a fucking Nazi - how much more messed up could he be?
I don’t think anyone is going to come out of this one happy. The story seems to say that the mother might have abused the kid. Maybe that’s why he was messed up.
God help anyone for whom the most responsible person in your life, and the one who winds up with full custody after a divorce, is a neo-Nazi.
You think the old man was dangerous? How about this kid? He popped his pop. While pop was sleeping. And did it when he was 10. This kid is a future Timothy McVeigh.
I’m going to hope it was a case of the kid protecting a younger sibling from his dirtbag father. At least then he stands a fair chance of growing up to live a decent life.
How messed up is the mom though that she could not get custody vs. a Neo-Nazi? In NJ, my understanding is the mom almost always gets custody unless the mom is a serious mess. But maybe that does not hold true elsewhere.
In the end it sounds like this boy has been through a hellish start on life.
Well, now…Arnold’s father was a Nazi at a time when anyone involved in military, police or civil service basically had to join the Nazis or die. Nowadays, in America, willfully identifying as a Nazi implies a genuine and fanatical investment in the Nazi ideology.