Three years later his mom was paroled and Charles went back to live.

             with her, although she was an alcoholic and was known to leave Charles with neighbors for weeks at a time without any contact from her. It is rumored that his mom once traded him for a pitcher of a beer at a local bar. Manson was sent to a home for boys in which escaped from later he was picked up on robbery charges and this pattern of him escaping homes, was even put in the Omaha Home for Boys. Being sent right back to them continued until about age 13 when he was sentenced to three years in a reform school where the guards and other inmates allegedly assaulted Manson sexually until he and two other inmates escaped. They were headed westward until they were picked and sentenced to federal jail time for driving stolen cars over state lines. First he was put in a minimal security section of the prison until he held a razor blade to another inmates neck and threatened to kill him. After a few other attacks on fellow inmates Manson was transferred to a higher security section of the prison. After being transferred Manson , became an ideal prisoner and was paroled for good behavior in the summer of 1954. In the fall of 1955 Manson was sentenced to five years probation but skipped his court date and had his probation revoked. Picked up in Indiana he was sent to a Federal Prison in California but later released on probation only to return again for pimping. While in jail he was given an IQ test and on which he scored a 121. Paroled once again in March of 1967 he headed to San Francisco where it was the "Summer of Love." The streets were full of runaway kids and all of them hungry to hear any insights or any message that was going on out there. Upon his arrival Manson appeared very charismatic to the young people attracting both men and women of the white race to follow him and follow him they did. Some eager to follow him were like Mary Brunner, a college graduate, others were like Susan Atkins and Robert Beausoleil and had experiences with Satanic cults.