Do you know of Ted Bundy? How about Juana Barraza? Or John Gacy aka the killer clown? If you have not caught on already then let me tell you who they all are they are all famous for being serial killers now that isn’t the only thing that stands out about these people. They all have something else in common, they all experienced something in their childhood. Something that is classified as not normal in today’s society and is inappropriate or life-changing in a way for such a young child. Now, what do you think happens to these people during their childhoods? Do you think it is an excuse for what they did later in life? do you feel sympathetic towards them, or do you feel the exact opposite and feel unsympathetic?
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A couple of serial killers that suffered from physical child abuse is Ed Gein who was relentlessly beaten for multiple years alongside his father whacking him so hard that he would suffer from multiple blackouts. Henry Lee Lucas had abusive alcoholics for parents and John Wayne Gacy who had a father that would beat him and his sibling at any sign of misbehavior from the kids. The effects of childhood physical abuse on a child can be a turning point in their life where they can either choose to be better than the abuser or turn their rage into something worse. Being physically abused can lead to someone thinking lesser of themselves and it can turn into a downward spiral where they gain anxiety, depression, random outbursts of anger, and can gain PTSD which means post-traumatic stress disorder this can be shown when someone has a flashback or nightmares and can make it difficult for the person to go to sleep and can lead to random outbursts of …show more content…
Having no sense of stability can affect someone as they can feel isolated and alone. Aileen Wuornos is a female serial killer that went from living with her mother to getting moved to her grandparents later. In her early teenage years, she spent time at home instead of school as she fell pregnant with a child and then dropped out of school not too long after having the child. This could have led to children’s academic achievements being lesser and can cause mental health problems. A traumatic event can be from a family member's death to a near-death experience and can be a life-changing event and can cause a lot of problems in the future which could include random outbursts of