sentences:  He was abused by both his adoptive parents so severely that, at age six, he suffered a hernia inflicted by his adoptive father.The punishments Kallinger endured included kneeling on jagged rocks, being locked inside closets, consuming excrement, committing self-injury, being burned with irons, being whipped with belts, and being starved.When he was nine, he was sexually assaulted by a group of neighborhood boys.