A Child Called It

by Dave Pelzer

I knew this was a book about child abuse, and I have avoided reading it for years. Then my youngest son and his friends read it at school. Since he's only eleven, I figured I had better read it too.

It was horrible and worse than I had imagined it. I can't understand how any mother could do the things his mother did to any child, let alone to her own. It was disgusting and inhumane, and it continued for years.

She starved him, beat him, burned him, stabbed him, and poisoned him, and etc. The father and brothers all knew about it and accepted it. They did not get him help or out of there.

The author is writing his own story. This one ends with him getting removed from his home by the school and police.

The next book is about his life in foster care. I'm not sure if I wan to read it.

This world is scary when people have the ability to harm someone else and enjoy it.