Day: December 8, 2021

Shirley

jimmy

Pam

LLoyd and Ruth

Beatings

Arnold Homes

  Re-edwest or Arnold Holmes for children they went by both names.  That was one of the worst experiences in my childhood. I suffered sexual abuse physical abuse emotional abuse pretty much anything that you could imagine while I was there.

I would come home sometimes for a weekend homepasses my mom would come pick me up. I remember one home pass I was home and they were painting that we were painting the fence by the house, I wasn’t much for painting and I didn’t do a very good job and my parents didn’t like it they thought that I should have done a better job because I wanted to paint.

I ended up getting really upset that day and stayed in my room crying and in 8 year old you know they’re gonna say things that they don’t mean. My mother took that as gospel truth, and when an 8-year-old says something like that,  a parent should never take that as the kid meaning it. I remained in Arnold Homes for 3 years after that, I was not afforded any further home visits with my mother.

I was constantly running away, because of abuse at Arnold Homes. I went through about every house they had, there was nowhere else for me to go. I remember going through the Gas “shortage” caused by OPEC. I even remember visiting the Governor’s mansion when Jerry Brown was Governor of California the first time.

Nancy