Upon recommendations from the physicians there, he was transferred to the Natural Bridge Honor Camp. where he was evaluated for physiological problems and deemed to be aggressively antisocial. After two failed attempts he escaped in 1951.Īfter more thefts and robberies he was apprehended and sent to the National Training School for Boys in Washington D.C. Yet another school for juvenile delinquents where Manson says he was beaten and raped. After the police caught him for more robberies, the courts sent him to the Indiana Boys School. After four days he and another child inmate stole a vehicle and drove to Illinois. He was eventually caught and a sympathetic judge sent him to Boys Town, another juvenile delinquent school in Omaha, Nebraska. Later he fled again, this time to Indianapolis where he rented a room and supported himself by burglarizing stores at night. The first time returning to his mother who only sent him back. A Childhood Behind BarsĬharles Manson fled Gibault twice. Gibault was a school for juvenile delinquents and was run by Catholic priests. His mother sent him to the Gibault School for Boys in Terre Haute, Indiana.

They reunited and Kathleen continued her abusive parenting habits but by this time Charles himself was becoming his own problem getting arrested and finding trouble around every corner.

Charles went to live with his aunt and uncle in West Virginia until his mother was paroled in 1942. Kathleen was involved in a robbery in 1939 and the courts gave her a ten-year prison sentence. She’d leave young Charles Manson to fend for himself or with a variety of babysitters while she was bar-hopping and hanging around various men getting into trouble. As Kathleen struggled with her own alcoholic tendencies she too would go missing for days at a time. The two divorced just three years later in 1937. Manson was a heavy drinker and would be missing for days at a time. Therefore it is likely that young Charles Manson never met his real father.Ĭharles later obtained the last name Manson from William Eugene Manson whom Kathleen began dating in 1934. When Kathleen told him she was pregnant, Scott fled the area never to return. His father, Colonel Walker Henderson Scott Sr., was an army man stationed nearby. He was first named “no name Maddox,” however within weeks, he was renamed Charles Milles Maddox. Charles Manson mugshot, Federal Correctional Institute Terminal Island, May 2, 1956.Ĭharles Manson was born to a 16 year-old runaway named Kathleen Maddox on Monday, Novemat a Cincinnati, Ohio hospital.

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