" A Child Called 'it'" written by Dave Pelzer, is a true story about a boys struggle through life as an abused, isolated child before reaching the age of 12.

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“ A Child Called ‘it’” written by Dave Pelzer,  is a true story about a boys struggle through life as an abused, isolated child before reaching the age of 12.  This book shows how much determination and human spirit a person can have, even while being the “third-worst case of child abuse” in the state of California.

        The story takes place in 1960's. A story about a young boy named David who lived the ideal “Brady Bunch” life. A boy “blessed” with a  loving family and perfect parents and two other brothers. A family that showed love and support to one another. A family that took vacations and adventures together. These were distant memories of David’s “childhood”.

         David now at the age of 4 and his “relationship”with his mother has changed beyond belief. A loving caring mother that once loved her son so very much, turned into the sick devil that she is. A woman who played sick “mind games” for her pleasure. It began when David didn’t finish doing his chores on time, his mother made him stand in the bathroom and look at the mirror and repeat hours at a time “I’m a bad boy”. This action soon brain washed four year old David into believing that he was a bad boy forever.

        When standing in the bathroom didn’t please David’s mother anymore she began with slaps and kicks. She broke his arm and then told her husband that David had fallen out of the top bunk bed and broke his arm. She lied to keep herself out of trouble, but soon it was no longer necessary to lie.  David soon became aware that he was no longer part of the family, and that he was just in the house to serve the family. He was treated lower than the dogs in the house.

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         When slaps and kicks no longer pleased her, she decided to invent new ways of hurting and torturing her child. One day when the family went out his mother decided to try something new. She told David to strip down into nothing, than she made him stand in the kitchen while she turned on the stove. She ordered him to climb on the stove, but he refused and tried to waste time because the rest of the family would soon be home. His mother in anger grabbed his arm and forced it on the stove, while his arm was burning ...

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