This is about my cousin, he is 20. This started when he was 3(that is when he told me he remembers it starting). I have personally seen my uncle hurt him a few years ago on a holiday. He got beat with belts(really hard, he has sent me pictures of his wounds when this was happening to him) from age 3 to age 18 it happened to him. He never got to finish high school, his parents took him out of school in the beginning of 10th grade, to start him on online school, but they never followed through with that, he said they claimed they couldn't afford it so he just had to stop doing school all together. He has tried getting help for the abuse at 17-18 when he was in this group for high schoolers at this church he would just walk to(right by his house), his group leaders would egg him on, saying he could speak to them whenever he needed to, except that was a lie. He has walked places to meet up with them before(when they would invite him) but they never showed up, when he needed someone the most. He stopped going last year at 19. Ever since then he has kept to himself, right now my aunt and uncle just yell cuss and put him down daily he said. He has no way of leaving, his parents tell others he is 4 years younger than he really is. They get away with this because my cousin doesn't look his age, he has no ID his parents never allowed him to get one, and his parents lost his birth certificate when they moved when he was 13. Why would his parents treat him like this from age 3 to age 18? Is this normal? Those times he was supposed to meet the church leaders to talk, I went with him when they never showed up. They never contacted him when he tried calling to ask where they were, and they never apologized to him for not showing up. He told me they replied back to him a week after that, just saying they couldn't meet up then even though they had planned that day to. This happened over 10 times to him, I know because I went with all of those times.