He might have hurt some feelings and taken advantage of people emotionally, but he didn't physically harm anyone. What he did was wrong, but could be worse.
Near where I live there was a girl who for yeeears starved herself, shaved her head, waxed her eyebrows and pulled out her own eyelashes. All to convince people that she had cancer and was undergoing expensive procedures and needed money. People held fundraisers, donated money, big galas were held and it came out later that she was lying and living off this money the whole time.
You have a kid who was starved for attention and now he's getting it. I say leave him be, he's got enough to deal with already.
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