The French Con Man Who Fooled The FBI — How A 23-Year-Old Impersonated A Missing Texas Boy And Lived With His Family For Months
The psychological harm of the Bourdin deception to the Barclay family was not simply the material harm of being deceived.
It was this deeper harm: the interruption and corruption of a grief process that had been in progress, followed by the need to restart that process from a more damaged position.
This is the specific cruelty of the Bourdin case — not just that he exploited a family’s grief, but that he disrupted the natural processes by which human beings adapt to loss and left those processes more damaged than they found them.
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