The lost boy week 1

i was reading the secret but i switched to the lost boy. It's been very interesting...it's about a little boy that is a slave to his mother. She tortures him and makes him do awful things.She makes him sleep on a hard army cot in the basement and he can't come out unless she calls for him. She beats him and she's even broken his bones. She has done this for years until his teachers at school done sometjhing about it. He was deprived of food and had to eat out of the garbage. He came to school with gashes marks and bruises. the law finally got involved when they were notified by the school and took him from his mother and placed him in foster care. he grew very attached to his social worker and she became the only one he trusted. There were like seven other kids in the foster home. He was treated like a normal child which he wasn't used to that. There is a court date against his mother that they are preparing for.