1.+Childhood

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Childhood

Charles Milles Manson was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to sixteen-year-old Kathleen Maddox. She was an alcoholic and spent much time in prison. Kathleen was not able to support her son, and Charles spent his childhood living in the homes of various relatives such as his aunt and uncle in McMechen, West Virginia, as well as reform schools and boys homes such as Gibault School for Boys in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Charles Manson then began stealing at age nine. After he began living on his own due to being rejected by his mother, Charles traveled to Indianapolis where he proceeded to commit various burglaries. After being caught, he was sent to an Indianapolis juvenile center, Boys Town in Omaha, Nebraska, but he soon escaped. He was then sent to the Indiana School for Boys at age 13 due to two grocery store break-ins, but he escaped in 1951 with two other boys. They stole vehicles and began stealing from gas stations, but they were later apprehended in Utah. Manson was then sentenced to the National Training School for Boys in Washington, D.C..

He was transferred to the Natural Bridge Honor Camp October 1951, but after sodomizing another boy and threatening him with a razor blade, Manson, now considered dangerous, was imprisoned in the Federal Reformatory in Petersburg, Virginia. He was let out in May 1954 for good behavior and went to live with his aunt and uncle again. In January 1955 Manson married a waiter named Rosalie Jean Willis who later gave birth to Charles Manson Jr. Charles Manson was arrested once again, though, and sent to the Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island, San Pedro, California. He was let out in September 1958 which was the same time his wife divorced him. Manson was imprisoned again in September 1959 for forging a U.S. Treasury check. When he was let out, Mason met a prostitute named Leona Stevens whom he married. He was arrested once again for his association with pimping and prostitutes, and Manson was sent to the U.S. Penitentiary in Washington. Once let out, Stevens, who gave birth to Charles Luther Manson, divorced him. While at the U.S. Penitentiary at McNeil Island in Washington State, Manson became interested in Scientology which he learned about from a fellow delinquent at the institution. He later claimed that he was a Scientologist. Charles Manson was released from prison on March 21st, 1967.