Charlie Bothuell V, a 12-year-old boy living in Detroit, was locked in the basement of his home by his stepmother and tortured by his biological father who made ago a ridiculous amount of intense exercise every day. They were also denied basic necessities such as food and water. Charlie recently told police that his stepmother barricaded him behind boxes and told him "not to come out, no matter what he feels" and threatened "to make him disappear." The exact exercise regimen was 200 sit-ups, 100 push-ups, 100 jumping jacks, 25 curls on each arm with a 25-pound weight, and thousands of revolutions on an elliptical machine in less than an hour. It was also discovered that Charlie's father attacked him with a bloody PVC pipe. Charlie revealed that he was abused throughout the two years he lived with his father. Both adults say the allegations are false, however doctors agree that Charlie's injuries are consistent with abuse. Charlie was found by the FBI, hiding and starving in a basement storage room that normally only maintenance workers would have access to, after he disappeared. for 11 days. His biological mother tells interviewers that she sent Charlie to live with his father because his school grades were slipping and his father wanted to home-school him. The father apparently adhered to very strict rules, and such expectations may have opened the door to the abuse that took place. 'Charlie never said anything about it. Again, we can only imagine what home life was like for the father-turned-abuser before the divorce, but marital problems further drive a person to abuse. In trying to understand the psychology of abuse and crime we must consider all options that seem plausible, those that have some validity in the abusers' real lives as some details will vary from case to case.