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They confiscated their son’s passports, they took away his computer and they repeatedly searched his pockets.

But nothing the boy’s parents did could stop him from becoming increasingly involved with ISIL and wanting to get to Syria — one way or another.

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That’s the portrait painted by the Crown of a teenager on trial for terrorism-related offences, and his hapless parents who watched and worried that he might succeed in joining the jihad — or even perpetrating a terrorist act in Montreal.

In her closing arguments Tuesday, Crown Prosecutor Lyne Décarie relied heavily on statements by the accused’s mother and father, who said they first confronted their son about what he was doing online in 2012, when he was 13.

That was two years before he robbed a dépanneur in October 2014, allegedly to pay for his trip to Syria.

The teenager, who was 15 at the time of his arrest, is accused of committing a crime in association with a terrorist group, and trying to go abroad to carry out terrorist activities.