There's some other messed up stuff. One is that the bitch that is Nancy Grace tells the father ON TV that they found his son. She pauses, THEN she tells him that he's alive.
With this link CPS removes other Bothuell children from home, stepmother in cus - Fox 2 News Headlines They took away a PVC pipe used to beat the kid, the father admitted using it to "discipline". This is the same kind of plumbing pipe put forth for discipline by the Pearls, and many people who follow the Pearls (and their book, To Train Up a Child) have killed their children. Think of the recent Hana Williams trial. They found blood in the boy's room and on his clothing, and they are testing it to see whose blood it is.
This link Detroit Police say Charlie Bothuell's stepmother in custody, children removed from home - WXYZ.com Explains that the stepmother's uncle lives three doors down, and there are underground hallways that connect the units in the building. This uncle is running for Attorney General of Michigan. The article also said that the boy was subjected to an "exercise regime" and was homeschooled, which is another thing that book of torture recommends. Make the kids exercise to exhaustion and keep them home away from other people, which hides what you're doing to the kids.
More and more weird stuff is popping up in this. I'm assuming they used these underground hallways to move the kid around.