A Child Called It

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Mother, as David called her, in her drinking. He, too, knew David was a "good boy." He did not
join in the abuse, but he did not to stop it, either. David was treated like a slave in his own home.
His mother treated him as if he wasn’t even a member of the family like a nobody or an “It”. She
first referred to him as, “The Boy, then it quickly changed to It”. Nobody at his school liked him,
they called him "Pelzer Smelzer" because his mom never washed his clothes and made him wear
the same thing every day. After school, once Dave completed his chores, he was banished to the
basement where he was made to stand until he was called to clean off the dinner table and wash
the dishes. If he was caught sitting or lying down, the consequence was further abuse. He had to
sit on his hands at the bottom of the stairs for hours on end--always in fear of what would happen
if he was caught moving a muscle.
David’s dad couldn’t do anything about it either because he acted like he was afraid of the
mother also. His mother did a lot of awful things to him in front of his two brothers, Ron...