David grew up in Daly City, California with his mother and father, and three younger brothers. During the first years of David's life, their family had appeared almost perfect, but soon this would all change. Around the age of six, his mother started to go through some changes. She no longer liked to go on the trips that their family went on regularly, she no longer dressed up, did her hair, nor her makeup. She often times would pass out on the couch in front of the television after drinking an excessive amount of alcohol. David's mother had soon become an alcoholic who had taken a turn for the worst.

David's life drastically changed, as his mother

David's mother continued to get worse. She never fed him, made him do countless chores, and constantly beat him up. There would be times that his mother would say that he could eat if he could get all of his chores done in a specific amount of time, though the time she would give him was impossible to finish all of his chores in. David would get so desperate for food that he turned to stealing and going door-to-door begging for a bagged lunch. Somehow, his mother always found out about his schemes. She would punish him so we he would fear what would happen to him if he did it again. She would force him to throw whatever he had to eat up, and then eat it again. Other times she would allow him to eat, it would be scraps of food that not even the dogs would attempt to eat. He would also be given a time limit of only a few seconds to eat. The rest of the food would go to waste in the garbage, as David would go on starving.

There was a few times when onlookers would catch on to the kind of lifestyle David was living. Teachers and other authority figures tried to step in, but David feared his mother so much that he would lie for her. David would continue on living the same way. As usual, things exceedingly worsened. The torture his mother came up with were excruciating. Several times he would be forced to scrub and clean the bathroom. His mother came up with a mixture that could kill him, Clorox and ammonia. This solution was absolutely intoxicating. David would do everything in his power to avoid breathing in the fumes, but that was nearly impossible. He would cough up blood and nearly pass out; he often wished that he wo

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