Another way of looking at it is. When they invented God, they made a few mistakes in the script, they could not do a rewrite because they had got a lot of it in the can already, so then they had to invent the devil to try and get the plot to make sense. (Did not work, complete turkey.)
Have your son tortured and killed, but let the
bad guy keep running around.
Kinda like how Batman never kills his villains no matter how many people die.