and various other minor crimes. While incarcerated, he was molested by an adult counselor assigned to control and monitor the juvenile offenders. Following Bonin's release from the detention home, he began sexually fondling his younger brother. After six months, Bonin's younger brother informed their mother of the fondling, prompting his parents to force Bonin to sleep in his own bedroom. Bonin later confessed to fondling and orally copulating younger boys and stripping in the presence of a ten-year-old girl. Adolescence Attending the middle school adjacent to Coventry High School in 1959 and 1960, Bonin had failing grades and isolated himself from others, at one point attempting incest with an older female cousin. In late 1960, Bonin's mother kicked his father out of their home, earning custody of her children with the court declaring his father unfit on grounds of spousal abuse and frequent drunken absences. Due to the gambling addiction of Bonin's father which resulted in the prospect of the foreclosure of the family home however, Bonin's parents reconciled and opted to relocate from Connecticut to California after Bonin's recently fired father was offered a well-paying job in Downey, California, as a machinist. In early 1962, the family relocated to 2417 West 187th St. in Torrance, California. Although both parents were generally neglectful of their children, Bonin and his brothers were primarily raised by their mother, who often displayed inordinately domineering and emasculating behavior toward Bonin. Bonin attended North High School in Torrance, where he was regarded as a social outcast who scarcely interacted with his peers, although his younger brother later recollected Bonin as an outwardly well-behaved teenager with an apparently caring personality, whom he nicknamed "Goody-Two Shoes" for his temperament. "He'd give the clothes off his back," Paul later remarked of his brother's generosity. "If he had a bag of candy, he gave it away," Bonin's mother also later recalled of her middle son. According to Bonin, he was something of an awkward, shy loner who generally felt uncomfortable in the presence of his peers. Consequently, Bonin is not known to have formed any long-standing or close friendships throughout his adolescence. He was also self-conscious of his facial features, and refused to smile in public due to his misaligned teeth. His primary hobby as a teen was bowling, something at which he performed adequately; this hobby would last throughout the course of his teenage years. Falling asleep in