There was a misconception by the parents due to their ignorance about cryptocurrencies and how rumours has been speculating in their localities that bitcoin or cryptocurrencies are all ventures for internet fraudsters which they found unfortunate that their son has engaged himself on it after several times they asked the young boy to go and find a job out there so he could make living out of instead.
I can understand this part because it happened to me too when I got into this industry. It's even worse when you make your crypto engagement your major source of earning and people don't see you leave your home and come back like the 8am to 5pm dudes do. To make it worse, criminals around now claim they're into cryptos when they're asked what they do for a living. So, any work from home person that uses same line becomes an instant suspect.
Instead of the young man to have a constructive explanation to his uneducated parents probably to say he's working on a remote job, he told the old folks that he's a bitcoin Investor of which they got frightened out of the concept.
Wait until you meet adamant ignorant folks who are bent on clutching to their ignorance, then you will know how difficult it's to explain things that are simple.
They called the police on him and knowing that the police would go in details in tracing his source of income as claimed, he was subjected to be transparent to the police and he was investigated and was found non guilty of engaging on the internet fraudulence as the parents might have sighted.
His parents were wrong going that length. The best they could've done would've been to keep observing him and refusing to accept any gift from him. Going to the extent of calling the police was overboard.