Summary Of The Child Called It By Dave Pelzer

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“The Child Called It,” by Dave Pelzer is a novel based on a child who is mistreated by his

mother. The stepmother treats the child worst than trash. He is fed teaspoons of ammonia, a harmful

substance for a human body. He sleeps under the kitchen table with the cold as his blanket. It is a great

example of what child goes trough when he or she is been mistreated by a relative.

Priests

The sexual abuse of children was rarely discussed in public before the nineteen seventy’s, and it

was not until the nineteen eighty’s that the first cases of molestation by priests came to light, in the US

and Canada (Bcc, 2015). Priests are viewed as religious models to certain religions. Religious civilians

have this belief of priests been pure and
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Not only they abduct for sex or

marriage, but to replace their lost child. Women tend to have this psychological idea of pretending they

can replace their unborn or lost child with someone else children.

The Outcome

Phoenix, Arizona is known as the kidnapping capital of America (Richard, 2009). Usually an

abductor is a male age of 27, and comes from a lower class. The National Crime Information Center,

forensic artists have age-progressed images of missing children and created reconstructions for

deceased children (Ncmec, 2015). As technology expands through out the years the easier it will be to

find this innocent children. Technology has been a helpful resource for not only this area, but also for

other criminal cases. The case of Etan Patz (1978) is famous, due to his disappearance and for been the

first missing child to have his photograph on the front of milk cartoons. On May two thousand twelve,

Pedro Hernandez, was arrested in connection with this death (Cnn, 2015). On February nineteen

eighty-five, Cherrie Mahan, was kidnapped on her way home. She was the first child to be on the

postcard, “have you seen me?” (Cnn, 2015). In today's society the same postcards are seen

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