No, she seems to not have the full story and is angry and upset and trying to protect her son, who seems to have a problem with telling the truth. Chris is talking to a lot of people and is telling different stories to EVERYONE. He helped Alex escape from Whitmore just a few days before these boys ran. SO why is it so hard to believe he instigated these boys into running away, and just used this well-known advocate MOM Joyce as the MONEY-PERSON. Makes good sense to anyone who is not emotionally involved in the issue.
If Mary will just step back and think it through, she will figure it all out.
These are kids, and kids do dumb things.
And Joyce Harris seems to believe that Whitmore is an abusive facility....so if she agreed to help these kids, THEN someone had to have told her a pretty outrageous story to get her involved at any level.
And Chris seems to be a rather outrageous story teller.
And let's face it---he did break this girl Alex out of Whitmore just days before these boys ran.
Sounds like Mary needs to have a heart-to-heart talk with son Chris before she goes off on Joyce Harris!