[Simon Green]

As you know, Hell is real and is a horrible place of eternal suffering

Assumes facts not in evidence, yer honor. I have no such knowledge.

[Mrs. Don-o]

This may contribute toward answering your question:

#44

The bottom line is, we are forbidden from judging things we cannot know with moral certainty, e.g. a persons interior disposition (the state of their soul) and a soul's eternal destination.

We cannot judge this because we cannot know it. These things are in God's hands entirely.

The best thing to do in the circumstances, I think, is to affirm the goodness of God. Such as:

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."

God gives mercy for mercy.

Any finer-tuned judgments are not appropriate. The boy's father might have turned in trust toward God in his last earthly thought. Charitably, we should all pray that he would have done so.

Check out #44