So much potential in this young man. It's a shame he had these difficulties to deal with. It sounds like he had absolutely no guidance, no encouragement toward a positive way to use his skills. I see it as the equivalent of the school prankster falling in with the wrong crowd, and ending up doing something seriously harmful to try to gain respect.
> found guilty of hacking and given a suspended prison sentence of 240 days plus community service. He didn’t want to do community service, however, so did the time instead.
I wish they had dug into that a little bit more. What did the service entail? How could it be worse than doing time? I don't imagine it would have been a highly social or physically demanding job.
>Edwin asked Ruud if he could move back home, but his dad didn’t feel up to the task of taking in his now 22-year-old son.
That's heartbreaking. Having to turn away your son who is desperate need of care because you can't provide it, and then having him commit suicide a while later.
This story is depressing. I wish there was more about how people were trying to help him, because as it stands, it seems to me he was mostly abandoned.