My grandson is fatherless and motherless and is having so many problems at just ten years old, he is so angry all the time, he is sad and angry about losing his Mum five years ago and often talks about killing himself, the first two years was the worst and even though he had counseling sadly it did no real good.

At school they have no idea how to deal with him and are constantly on his back about everything. How can anyone understand what goes through the mind of a small boy? He remembers the beatings his Mother used to endure at the hands of a cruel and sadistic brute that his Mother was involved with and the reason we moved over three hundred miles.

After eighteen months of being punched and beaten, raped and humiliated my daughter was unable to take it any more and confessed to what was happening to her at the hands of the beast who still to this day is doing the same to other woman.
To keep her and the children safe we decided to move as far away as possible, for six months before we sold our house my daughter was a prisoner in our home.

He would stand outside taunting her and threatening her and there was nothing the police could do, I had to have a bodyguard escort to take my granddaughter to school every day, he is the most frightening man I have ever come into contact with.
My grandson blames him for his Mum dying and his one ambition in life is to grow up big and strong and go and kill the man responsible for taking her away from him.

Neither of the children can bear to say his name and call him that man when they refer to him and their life back then. We will never know if he was responsible for her death as she died from a brain hemorrhage but I'm pretty sure being beaten about the head may have been a contributory factor,as far as my grandson's concerned he is to blame and nothing anyone says will make him change his mind. The fact that he would go to prison for killing him doesn't matter at all, he just wants him dead.

My husband and I who are bringing the children up are not in a real relationship, he works away and only comes home every other weekend so he has no father figure to help him, we were separated before we moved away and after the death of out daughter instead of it bringing us closer together it makes it even harder.

The children's Dad and my daughter had had a bitter parting and he only got to see the children at our house, and sadly he did not handle it well, after we moved he never saw them until after my daughter

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