article_snippet.sent: Abandoned by one adoptive family, separated for nearly three decades from his sister, and exposed to abuse by another American adoptive couple, Crapser struggled with rejection, homelessness and crime . '
article_snippet.sent: Seven years after Crapser and Crapser sister were adopted, Seven years after Crapser and his sister were adopted parents abandoned Seven years after Crapser and his sister were adopted.
article_snippet.sent: The foster care system separated Crapser, ten at the time, from Crapser sister, whom Crapser was dependent on, according to orphanage records.
article_snippet.sent: Crapser bounced through several foster and group homes.
article_snippet.sent: When Crapser was 12, Crapser moved in with Thomas and Dolly Crapser, Thomas and Dolly Crapser, their biological son, two other adoptees and several foster children biological son, two other adoptees and several foster children.
article_snippet.sent: The next four years, Crapser said, the couple choked, kicked and hit Crapser and the other children every day, slammed the other children against walls, set dogs to attack the other children and burned the other children with hot objects.
article_snippet.sent: Still in limbo: Crapserposes with daughter, Christal, one,  in the family's living room . '
article_snippet.sent: Crapser sentence included 90 days in jail, and Crapser wife's three years of probation.
article_snippet.sent: Because students at Crapser high school teased Crapser about the abuse, Crapser said Crapser dropped out of 9th grade.
article_snippet.sent: Crapser became homeless and slept in a shelter or the back of an old car while working several fast food jobs and finishing Crapser high school equivalency diploma at night.
article_snippet.sent: Over the next few years, Crapser struggled alone, and also got into trouble with the law.
article_snippet.sent: Once it was after Crapser broke into Crapser parents' home - it was, Crapser said, to retrieve the Korean Bible and rubber shoes that came with Crapser from the orphanage - and later it was for stealing cars and assaulting a roommate.