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It wasn’t always like this for the boy in the prisoner’s box, the white pride kid who calls himself the son of Hitler.

There was a time when he had friends and played hockey.

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But in 2015, the teen’s life took a rapid turn that had nothing to do with booze or drugs, but rather the demons in his mind. His family wondered if he was hearing voices. He got into trouble at school when he started obsessing about a classmate, sometimes reciting the classmate’s home address and punching him for no reason.

The teen, a member of an online white power network, believes there is an anti-white conspiracy and that he has to somehow protect the “extinction” of his race.

In 2016, he started spewing his hatred in public, spray-painting swastikas and satanic slogans on places of worship around town. The community rallied, the Ottawa police caught the hate-graffiti boy and he pleaded guilty to five charges including inciting hatred, threatening people because of their race or religion, and possessing dangerous weapons.