Ken took advantage of Steven for SEVEN YEARS. Steven believed it after a while because…what else could he do? He was only seven. He’d told Steven that his parents didn’t want him anymore and that he was forced to take care of him. She said that the kid we knew as Dennis was actually named Steven, and the man we thought was his father, Ken, had kidnapped him when he was only seven years old. Then, when I was 14 or 15, my mom sat my brother and me down, saying she had something to tell us. That’s when I learned the chilling truth.
When I turned 12, we moved, and I lost touch with Dennis. I tried talking to Dennis about his dad, but he shut me down and would not discuss it at all. After some time, Dennis eventually came back out, and we left. Ken stood at the window and stared at me with an angry, pouty look on his face. He said his dad, Ken, would be really angry if I came in.Īt the time, they lived in a trailer in the middle of nowhere up a dirt road, with a tall wire fence surrounding it and a dog in the yard outside that barked at me nonstop. But on that particular day, Dennis made me wait outside. He’d give the boys all sorts of freedom, and that freaked my brother out. He liked when Dennis brought his male friends over, but hated when girls came along. I’d never been to his house, but my brother had, and he came back with stories about Dennis’ dad being really creepy. One day, we were riding around, and Dennis said he had to swing by his place to get something. He was the one who taught me to ride a dirtbike, and we used to go around on his, exploring the paths in the surrounding area. He was a year older than me, and I had a crush on him. He was goofy, fun, and interesting. One of the kids in the group I hung out with was Dennis. We didn’t have a TV, cable, or electricity for that matter, so my friends and I would often just hang out in the woods, mostly unsupervised. We were hippies, sort of, and at the time, there were no cell phones or Internet. When I was young, my family lived in the woods up in Northern California.
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