In cases of long term, extreme abuse-brutality-torture and sexual abuse-brutality-torture, the child-spirit is completely destroyed.  The ability to feel compassion, caring or love, is wiped out.

In its place is a huge black hole, devoid of human feeling or human emotions. In the hollow area feelings are non existent; a bottomless pit, sterile, dark.

It explains why some people can commit horrendous crimes against other human beings.  It is the authors speculation, rather than first hand knowledge, that many death row inmates, if not all, who commit heinous crimes against others, experienced such early violence, over time and with great intensity.

It is not known if a person so utterly destroyed, can rebuild their child-spirit enough to experience human feelings again. It is too dangerous to make the idea an experiment.

Children may exhibit some of these symptoms early in life:

• Face is a mask
• Expressionless
• Frozen watchfulness
• Unable to love
• Unfeeling
• Can't cry
• No emotion
• Can't feel emotional pain
• Lack compassion on all levels
• Twisted thoughts and feelings
• Only feel emotion when inflicting pain on animals or humans