Small Offenses
Young Charles started to steal small things from stores, but his mother didn’t want him to continue on that path. Additionally, she was attending AA meetings to fight her drinking addiction which meant she couldn’t take care of him. Eventually she sent her son to a Catholic-run school for boys, but Manson hated it and returned back home.
Small Offenses
Like Mother Like Son
After seeing his mother stealing and committing crimes, Charles decided that he could do the same thing. It wasn’t long until he started robbing stores in order to support himself and rent a room of his own. After being caught and let off lightly by a compassionate judge, everyone thought he would see the error of his ways and repent, but he didn’t.
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Like Mother Like Son
