I don't know, perhaps God failed him.

A story about boy who never found a home and was murdered at 18. Poignant.

The writer blames herself and the "system" but the "system" gave this boy chance after chance after chance and he still ended up dead outside a bar three years before he was old enough to drink. Perhaps God made him unlovable the same way he made Pharoah unpersuadable. Maybe God wanted us to see this lost boy and blame ourselves.

But of course we in our arrogance make an a priori assumption about God's perfection: that he's perfectly good in our sense of the word or what I call the Tri Perfecta God theory:  God is Perfect, Perfectly Good and Perfect for Us. But God is not required to please us to be perfect. Indeed for a transcendent God to be perfect he must please only himself.