Jagger held onto the balloons for what felt like hours until he finally descended over a farmer’s field hundreds of miles away. As he floated away, the last image he saw was his father staring – unmoving and emotionless – without making any effort to save his child. As the balloons lifted him higher and higher, he soon became afraid to let go out of fear of falling from a great height. Terrified of what would happen to him should he let the balloons go, he held on. Though he tried to warn his father, he was ordered to shut up or get hit. However, because he was so malnourished and underweight, the balloons begin to lift his tiny frame off the ground. Though he protested, Jagger was forced to hold onto the balloons as he filled them up. Selling random found and stolen items out of the back of a van, he forced his son to work alongside him to earn his keep.Ī couple months later, his father came upon a helium tank and balloons. With his breadwinner gone, his father had no other option than to make money to support himself. Though most children his age look forward to going to school, Jagger was refused an education. Left alone to be raised by his abusive father, he wept for the mother he never really knew, knowing he would never see her again. Had she bothered to look back, she would have seen the agony of abandonment in his eyes. He suffered more broken bones at such a tender age than most adults experience in their entire lifetime.Īround his sixth birthday, Jagger’s parents had a violent dispute that ended with his mother packing her belongings and storming out of the house without so much as a glance in her son’s direction. He wore dirty rags – which hung loosely off his severely malnourished, underdeveloped frame. He slept in a closet on a cold, hard floor. After all, between the two of them, she rationalized if her husband was hitting their child, she was safe.įor the first few years of his life, Jagger knew only hunger, anger, and pain. Far too often she ignored her son’s pleas for food or attention, as well as his cries for help when his father was beating him. She would go to work early and come home late just to avoid any interaction with her son. Although she didn’t abuse him as his father did, she was a negligent mother who took no interest in her only child. His mother, for her part, was the breadwinner of the family and was never particularly active in Jagger’s life. He was even too inconvenienced to call Jagger by his given name, referring to him only as “Boy” his entire life.

Or to give him a comfortable place to sleep. It was too much of an annoyance to feed or bathe his son every day. His father was an abusive alcoholic who regarded him as nothing more than an inconvenience. When Jagger was a young kid, he was raised as an only child in a very toxic and unstable environment. 7.4 Giblets (Donny Rashguard) - Deceased.

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