Asked by his mother if he would speak to CNN, Boyce declined. “When he returned this weekend to Idaho, I hoped after some time in prison that maybe this would be a wake-up call for anyone who wanted to ask, ‘What is this group I was on?’ [with]”Where does this really lead me?” he said. But when she saw him, Amsden said her son stood by the team and her plans. He said he told her, “We were there to stop the children from grooming them. We did what we thought was right.” Her son was more established in a white nationalist group, he said. And that became a wake-up call for her and how she would be with her son, who has lived in her basement since his marriage broke up, she said. “I said then, ‘You can not live in my house and do such things and launch this hatred into the world and put yourself in danger,’” she told CNN about her confrontation with her son. “You have to leave my house.” Amsden said she did not know what else to do after she reached the end of her relationship with her son. He said he grew up with love and had friends of different ethnicities and cultures before engaging with extremists and expressing their views. “I am not who I am and it makes me sick to hear it and sicker to know that it comes from my son,” he said. Boyce is scheduled to appear in court on a criminal conspiracy charge in August, according to Idaho court records.
