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As we joked, when our children were growing up, we hoped for David and Ricky BUT got Beavis and Butthead! Our oldest always was the pouter, the youngest a happy go lucky joking, everything running off his back person. We spent a great deal of time with our 2 boys, taking them camping one weekend each month, 2 weeks twice a year also taking them to Disneyland, Magic Mountain, Knott Berry Farm, Sea World, summer camps and too many places to list, so many times a year that they were stick of it! They were included in most sports in and out of schools, music, clubs and friends by the loads. The older had a smaller base of friends compared to the youngest. We cut our own Christmas tree and made big family events for all holidays. We would have long family talks. Still he would pout. Nothing was fun for him at first. He would finally come around and have a little good time and then back to his sulky ways.

Our oldest really started showing bigger problems when he would turn us into the school, telling them we had no food. We kept 6 months or more of food in the pantry, 2 refrigerators, 1 freezer full. We found he brought candy with the money we gave him for lunch, so we brought him a lunch pass. The lunch pass would get stolen or something, we gave him sack lunches and this went on and on. We were invested 5 times or so for having no food and they found there was plenty of food at our home. Yes, he would even have someone say they were him to get his lunch pass. Very Tricky even at a young age!

Everything seemed to steam roll with lies. We tried everything from talking and explaining what he was doing and made him stay in his room to think about it. The early years, he would climb out his window, later years the other children climbed in his window.

A number of years he told people he was adopted and his real name was "Tom". We tried to explain this hurt us. We decided to let him play it out. We were about the only family with the parents together which loves each other, the children and a big family base, that the boys knew of.

His teen years really got bad, we think that was when the drugs and drinking started to compound itself. At 15 he started running away from home when we tried to make him come on family outings or do anything he did not think he wanted to do. We searched and got him back. If he was left home he had wild parties. Once he turned us in for sexual, physical and emotional abused. By now we had it. We were brought to the police department and told of

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