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Billy tells the story of the abduction of a child and the terror of his experience.

Barton Royal is an overweight man in his 40s who is obsessed with pubescent boys. He lives in Los Angeles but travels out of State to find and abduct a suitable kid so he can be his 'father'. When he spots twelve-year-old Billy Neary in an Iowa shopping mall, Barton is smitten: Puberty refers to the process of physical changes by which a childs body becomes an adult body capable of reproduction. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... Official language(s) English Capital Des Moines Largest city Des Moines Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 26th 145,743 km² 320 km 500 km 0. ... The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota — the third-largest in the world. ...

The face was the sort you could look at for hours; such beauty was a kind of food.

He follows the boy home, abducts him late that night, and drives back to California with Billy strapped into the back of his Aerostar minivan. We get chilling insights of Barton's past, his miserable childhood, and his physical and sexual abuse at the hands of his father and his recollections of what he has done to other boys before Billy. Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total   - Width   - Length    - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 158,302 sq mi  410,000 km² 250 miles  400 km 770 miles  1,240 km 4. ... The Ford Aerostar was Fords first attempt at building a minivan, and was introduced as a 1986 model in mid-1985. ... A modern minivan - 2004 Chrysler Town & Country Typical early minivan (a Dodge Caravan) A minivan, people carrier, multi utility vehicle (MUV),or multi purpose vehicle (MPV) is a type of vehicle which has a body that resembles a van, but which has rear side doors, rear side windows, and interior... Child abuse is the physical or psychological maltreatment of a child. ... The term child sexual abuse (CSA) is commonly defined in contemporary western culture as any sexual acts engaged in by minors and adults. ...

Billy is not only a stunningly attractive boy, he’s also bright and does everything he can to humour Barton. He tries to escape and also manages to make a couple of telephone calls. Barton cuddles Billy and strokes him, but doesn’t abuse him sexually him. His psychotic behaviour switches between extreme violence (he whips Billy mercilessly) and interludes of self-delusion when he imagines that Billy could somehow love him and call him Daddy. The term child sexual abuse (CSA) is commonly defined in contemporary western culture as any sexual acts engaged in by minors and adults. ... This article is about the mental state. ... Violence refers to acts of aggression and abuse which causes or intends to cause criminal injury or harm to persons, and (to a lesser extent) animals and property. ... A delusion is commonly defined as a fixed false belief and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. ...

Billy finds his way into Barton’s dungeon, his ‘black room’, and discovers the remains of many other young boys. Billy’s father beat the police to find Billy, just before Barton tortures and kills him. Torture is any act by which severe pain, whether physical or psychological, is intentionally inflicted on a person as a means of intimidation, a deterrent, revenge, a punishment, or as a method for the extraction of information or confessions (i. ...

See also

• Pedophilia
• Pedophilia in literature and film