Beth Thomas was the subject of a documentary made by HBO that was made in 1989. Beth was only 6 years old when she confessed to a psychologist that she wanted to kill her younger brother, the girl tortured animals and frequently molested her brother, no one didn’t seem to know why.
Beth’s mother died when she was just one year old, she and her brother, Jonathan, were left in the care of their sadistic father who abused her in every way possible and frequently left the two children alone for days or weeks in a row.
The children were finally saved from that house of horror by social services, but now she was destroyed for life and had horrible nightmares. Those who adopted the two, Tim and Julie, had no children of their own and were faithful people. They were told about the abusive past of the two children, but over time they began to notice that Beth’s behavior was completely abnormal.
Beth had nightmares in which a man abused her, she gave herself pleasure until she bled and had to be taken to the hospital, and one day she hit her brother with a concrete head with the intention of killing him, without showing any regret for any from her actions. The new parents took her to a psychologist, but then they returned her to the care of the state, they were afraid for their lives!
The girl was not capable of love, due to negligence and abuse she talked about the fact that she wants to stab her parents in her sleep, she told everything in a very calm tone. In the care of a therapist, over the years she began to understand what it is like for people to believe in her, to trust her, to consider her an important and valuable person.
After a year in an abused children’s center where she received daily therapy, she was now like other children her age, had friends, went to a state school, and the therapist allowed her to sleep in the same room as her daughter.
The girl learned to feel empathy for those around her and to trust people again. She eventually graduated from college and currently works as a nurse in Arizona. Not only did she receive an award for her outstanding results in motherhood, but now, in her spare time, she travels across the country talking with her therapist (who later became her adoptive mother) about this type of problem and the kind of therapy that changed her life.
The therapist’s name is Nancy Thomas, she was the first to believe that that little girl, who more than likely would have become a murderer without his help, could have become with the help of someone who would care about her, just the opposite, a person who saves lives. Beth’s story is the story of all the children who need to believe in themselves, whatever harm they have done. You can see in the picture below what she looks like now, isn’t it incredible that such a bright person can have gone through such monstrous things?
