After more than a year of shuffling blame and dragging feet, a classmate of 11-year-old Alex Meshivili finally confessed under order that he and his friends pushed Alex down, causing him to hit his head on a marble step. They hid his body, then told their parents, who helped move his body to another location a few days later.

So much is wrong with this investigation, it’s hard to know where to start. Some words that immediately come to mind: discrimination (Alex is not Greek), corruption, shame. (Update)

Alex’s mother has been painstakingly waiting to learn her son’s whereabouts, with each day longer than the next. This may not have been the news she wanted to hear, but perhaps now she can stop wandering in the unknown and start walking a path toward grieving and healing.