Clearly, parental permission is not required in such cases. If it were required, parents could maim and murder their own children willy-nilly while thumbing their noses at the police who’d be unable to act against the parents without the parent’s consent.
If the boy had wanted to do so, he could have reported the matter to the police himself, with or without his parents’ approval.
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