He is afraid of everything, assumed to have a low IQ, a sketchy abusive past and talks to no one. Kevin is 15 years old, cowering under a table when Torey first meets him, called Zoo Boy for the behaviors he exhibits and his self built cage of chairs and tables. Then he started to draw and paint and showed himself to have a quick wit and a rolling, seething, murderous hatred for his stepfather. As Hayden read to him and encouraged him to read, crawling down into his cage of chairs with him, Kevin talked. He was nearly 16.ĭesperate to see change in the boy, the staff of Kevin's adolescent treatment center hired Hayden. He was afraid to be naked, to change his clothes. He was afraid of water and wouldn't take a shower. He hadn't been out of the building in the four years since he'd come in. He hid under tables and surrounded himself with a cage of chairs. His name was Kevin but his keepers called him Zoo Boy.
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