David's Story
A woman screams as she fights for breath. Her husband is choking her with his bare hands. SDavid sits in a corner with terror filled tears rolling down his swollen cheeks. Why he should cry, he doesn't know. It's been worse than this. David's cheeks are swollen because he was beaten with the butt of a cold pistol. This night is no different than any other night for David and his sister. This night, is actually a better night than the rest, he isn't being raped.
David's life was destroyed through years of systematic destructive abuse by a sociopathic father. His sister as well suffered his same fate. David is now in a respite center in Akron, Ohio. The Village Network reports that while David's progress is hampered by outbursts of uncontrolled rage and anger he is a good child. His adoptive mother, Kathy maintains he's a GREAT child. His adoptive parents had no choice but to put David into respite care. The physical violence escalated as David's rage boiled over.
Kathy and her husband's tears for a son she was told would be “challenging” to raise cannot erase the tears of David's checkered and horrific past. David cannot connect to the people that love him. While David fights to release the shreds of his past, his family tries desperately to save his life, before he takes his own. David has tried to hang himself because the association of his own mother being choked resonate with painful associations of a past no one deserved.
We don't see a bad child, we see a good child suffering. It's our turn as a community to bring joy to a child's life that was brutally and coldly taken away from him. David's mother, Kathy, loves reading Stanly's journal entries, no matter how painful the words may be. She can see the true son she adopted 7 years through his pages and his love of music. Even though her son feels very little connection to the world, his anger or his suicidal ideation, all of us see a life worth saving.
This child's ties have to be rebuilt. We as a community have a duty to show this family we refuse to forget them. David's future can be filled with love, music and his love of sports. David's true self comes to the surface when he is absorbed in a science fiction novel. His love of reading silences the nights of terror, screaming and rape.
One Future At A Time brings your this story with the hopes that while David's life as a child was tragic, WE can fill it with beauty and a positive message of change and forgiveness. We can bring some solace to not only this child but an entire family reeling from the damage that haunts a family that needs help.
Let us embrace David and his family in every regard. Our most vigorous of efforts can show this family no matter how dark the world may seem to David, we as a community see the light of change through this child's eyes.
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