Dave Pelzer
Dave Pelzer was born on December 29, 1960 in Daly City, California. He is the son of Stephen Pelzer, who was of Austrian and Irish descent, and Catherine Pelzer. Dave Pelzer was the second of five boys in the family. He has experienced a truly horrific lifestyle. As a child, he endured the horrors of child abuse, this included physical torture, mental cruelty, and was nearly starved to death. His mother referred to him as “it”, he was the only child that was abused. The rest of his brothers lived a happy typical life. Dave, on the other hand, was looked at as the family slave. He was forced to sleep in the cold, dark basement on a cot with no blankets or pillow. He had only one pair of clothes and they were all torn and worn out from over the years. It all started when Dave was about two years old.
Before all of this took place, Dave was considered part of the family and was loved by both of his parents. Things were normal and he was treated like any other child would of been treated. Then one day things began to change and never went back to normal. Catherine was an alcoholic and a lot of the incidents occurred after she had been drinking. Stephen, Dave’s father, worked as a firefighter and was not at home a lot of the time, although when he was home he did not do anything to help Dave, but at the same time he did not participate in the abuse.
His mom would do horrible things to him, things that no one should ever have done to them. She made him drink ammonia, burn his arm on a gas stove, starve him, whip him, throw him down stairs. She wanted him dead; she would try to freeze him in ice cold baths and mix chemicals together and force him to breathe them in, resulting in him throwing up blood. She once even stabbed him in the stomach with a knife and never took him to the hospital or anything. She was a horrible person and until the day she died she did not regret anything she did to him.
Dave was forced to go to school and was looked at as an outcast
Before all of this took place, Dave was considered part of the family and was loved by both of his parents. Things were normal and he was treated like any other child would of been treated. Then one day things began to change and never went back to normal. Catherine was an alcoholic and a lot of the incidents occurred after she had been drinking. Stephen, Dave’s father, worked as a firefighter and was not at home a lot of the time, although when he was home he did not do anything to help Dave, but at the same time he did not participate in the abuse.
His mom would do horrible things to him, things that no one should ever have done to them. She made him drink ammonia, burn his arm on a gas stove, starve him, whip him, throw him down stairs. She wanted him dead; she would try to freeze him in ice cold baths and mix chemicals together and force him to breathe them in, resulting in him throwing up blood. She once even stabbed him in the stomach with a knife and never took him to the hospital or anything. She was a horrible person and until the day she died she did not regret anything she did to him.
Dave was forced to go to school and was looked at as an outcast