Blood Crimes by Fred Rosen

Author:Fred Rosen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media

Back in the Freeman home, Brenda and Dennis were convinced that they were under attack from Satan himself. Satan, the angel thrown to the lower depths by Jehovah, was attacking them through their sons Bryan and David. Persecution by Satan. But it was not something to feel badly about. On the contrary, Jehovah would not let their children become skinheads unless the Freeman family was loved by Him. What better way for the devil to get them than through their sons?

Brenda accepted this rationale because it was part of her religion to do so. But that didn’t change the reality of what she felt. She was scared for her sons, scared for herself, scared for her family.

The boys had already had a strained relationship with their Aunt Valerie. Now, it just got worse with arguments and threats. There were violent arguments that Brenda had with the boys, where they threatened her physical being, while she set down rules they had to live by. The more she tried to discipline them, the more they rebelled.

They began spending more and more nights out with their skinhead friends, coming home from their debauchery in miserable shape. Brenda turned for help to Robert Goodwin, the student assistance program director for the Salisbury Township Schools. Brenda had her sons go see him.

During their sessions with Goodwin, the Freeman brothers expressed a “severe hatred of their parents.” After consulting with Brenda, Goodwin assisted Brenda in placing the boys in various treatment facilities.

In addition to the Paradise School, over the next few years, Bryan and David Freeman found themselves interrupting their studies for stays at various Pennsylvania drug rehabilitation and behavior modification facilities, including Eastern States Hospital Renewal Center, the Richard J. Caron Foundation, and First Hospital in Wyoming. They were re-evaluated every six months.

“They knew how to play the game and did whatever was necessary to stay out of placement,” Goodwin later recalled.

Apparently, though, their play-acting was not all that effective, as the record of their continued placement shows.

With all that traveling, the boys’ social lives suffered. They had long ago left behind the Witnesses’ edict not to become friends with non-Witnesses. But they had not been social butterflies, either, and they always felt like outsiders. But their skins friends, contacts they maintained throughout their placements, understood. Their fellow skins could see the manipulation that was going on.

As the years passed, the brothers had trouble even within the Allentown skinhead community. They wound up feeling alienated from it to the point that they discussed with Benny forming their own skinhead crew.

Conformity was clearly something they did not like, yet something that everyone, family and school, required of them. Unlike other kids, though, the price of their nonconformity was their freedom. When they did not conform to what their parents—in particular, their mother—wanted, she sent them off. Placement was just another form of prison for them. There were no bars, but they didn’t have a choice about being there. If they tried to run away, it got worse.

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