 The parents have been neglectful of him and abused by neglect for a very long time, since he was a very little young boy. The parents would leave him in the house alone and go off drinking or go off somewhere and not leave him with a telephone, and for hours and hours. And he would have to, when he wanted to try to get them to come home or he needed something, he would have to go to a neighbor and ask a neighbor to call them.