Christopher's Story: An Indictment of the American Mental Health System

A physically abused boy with emotional problems is adopted at the age of three. Despite the best efforts of his father to assist him, the boy enters the perpetual dysfunction of the American mental health system and continues in a downward spiral from childhood to young adulthood until the cycle of physical abuse come full circle with tragic outcomes for both the boy and a new-born infant.

Part biography, part social commentary, and part cold case, a compelling tale of the autho…