his sister was given up for adoption shortly after his death. Little Darger was living mother’s with his father in Chicago, Illinois. There he was given the task of going to the store and doing the shopping to support his allying father. By the age of ten, his father was placed in a home for the aging, and Darger found himself placed in the care of a Catholic boys home called Our mission of our Lady of Mercy. He was tormented by the other boys for making strange noises and wired behavior. He was eventually excommunicated from the school as he puts it being “for he was taken to decided that he had mental illness, self-abuse, and his heart annoying”. A doctor was in the wrong place. He was then sent to Lincoln, Illinois; to the Lincoln Asylum for children (Figure 2). At the asylum he was subject to harsh punishments and forced labor. Children would mostly spend days in the fields from seven in the morning till five at night with only a half hour break during the day. Little effort was put in to teacher the children via book. Several unusual events took place during his time at the asylum. Some of those events include, a child was ravaged by rats, a doctor died after attempting self-castration, and a teacher who would use inmate corpses as part of anatomy lessons while referring to the deceased by name. Ultimately, Darger escaped a year before the asylum was investigated for abuse (Park). Once free, he found work as a janitor, attended daily Catholic Mass and lived a quiet solitary life in which almost no one knew him or noticed him. The tenants who lived with Darger at 851 W. Webster Avenue, in the Lincoln Park, said that he was a very quiet man who only remarked on the weather when talked to. He also would hold conversation with himself in his apartment that people could hear as they walked past his door. In the conversations Darger would use many different voices including little girls. He spent years like that in his apartment only coming out to attend church and go to his job as a janitor at the local hospital.
his sister was given up for adoption shortly after his mother’s death. Little Darger was living with his father in Chicago, Illinois. There he was given the task of going to the store and doing the shopping to support his allying father. By the age of ten, his father was placed in a home for the aging, and Darger found himself placed in the care of a Catholic boys home called Our mission of our Lady of Mercy. He was tormented by the other boys for making strange noises and wired behavior. He was eventually excommunicated from the school as he puts it “for being annoying”. A doctor he was taken to decided that he had mental illness, self-abuse, and his heart was in the wrong place. He was then sent to Lincoln, Illinois; to the Lincoln Asylum for children (Figure 2). At the asylum he was subject to harsh punishments and forced labor. Children would mostly spend days in the fields from seven in the morning till five at night with only a half hour break during the day. Little effort was put in to teacher the children via book. Several unusual events took place during his time at the asylum. Some of those events include, a child was ravaged by rats, a doctor died after attempting self-castration, and a teacher who would use inmate corpses as part of anatomy lessons while referring to the deceased by name. Ultimately, Darger escaped a year before the asylum was investigated for abuse (Park). Once free, he found work as a janitor, attended daily Catholic Mass and lived a quiet solitary life in which almost no one knew him or noticed him. The tenants who lived with Darger at 851 W. Webster Avenue, in the Lincoln Park, said that he was a very quiet man who only remarked on the weather when talked to. He also would hold conversation with himself in his apartment that people could hear as they walked past his door. In the conversations Darger would use many different voices including little girls. He spent years like that in his apartment only coming out to attend church and go to his job as a janitor at the local hospital.
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