Replies to '*Dr. Phil Prime Time Special: Caged'

   Very good i was thinking the same thing. We should E-mail dr. phil and request that Dave Peltzer the author of the series of books written on child abuse be a guest on his show. If you get a chance to read that book read the whole series. The series itself is a very good account of how an abuser works and how they can manipulate the rest of their families into going along with it. 

There are 3 books in that series. I saw Dave Pelzer on a talk show years ago and I believe he said his mother denied treating him the way she did. I'm sure she must have been mentally ill. She was never questioned about it .I think at the time I saw him on t.v., his mother had died. I'm not sure about the father. I know that some of the brothers remembered it and knew it was true. I think I remember him saying that after he was taken from the home, things got worse for his siblings.The things she did to him were hard to read. I don't know how in the world he came out of it as well as he did. When I read about his years of abuse I cried and had the urge to go back in time to that defenseless little boy and take him by the hand and lead him out of that cold basement. Thank God for the teacher who was willing to speak for him. I remember him writing about being taken in the police car from his home and thinking that he was going to jail for doing something wrong.

I read that book too. Horrifying, absolutley horrifying. There were moments I had to put it down and get my bearings it was so unbelievable. I can't even fathom how one human being could do that to another. Let alone a mother to her own child.