Alex Batty was kidnapped by his mother and grandfather while on vacation in Spain. He was found last December in the middle of the night by a delivery driver near Toulouse.
The teenager lived within itinerant spiritual communities in Morocco, Spain and then France. “Mom did what she did out of love. That's what she thought was best, he defended. She and my grandfather did it with the best intentions,” he told the Daily Mirror. He also spoke of the difficult return to a more common life after living in special conditions.