I worked with a lady, her eighteen year old son starting skipping school to avoid the violence. A grown man. She didn’t know as she worked all day. Upshot was $20k in fines for Mom, or bankruptcy for Mom and the threat of adult prison for the son.
The mom made minimum wage and had other kids. She had a little frame house that her mother left her, and government thugs were threatening to take that.
All because an adult male didn’t show up to a violent government school for a daily beating.
They can charge an adult who is old enough to leave school, with truancy?
Orwellian.
Different story as an adult. And if he can prove daily beatings, there should be no case. Sounds like $5,000 on a lawyer would have been money well spent.