Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN) - 2368

Tonight's special guest is Bobby Hyde from Miami, Florida, a long-time and well-known regular participant on the "Stop Child Abuse Now" talk radio shows. This is the first time Bobby will tell his story on his own 'special guest' episode. Growing up in the Boston area, he experienced a significant sense of being alone, neglected, and emotionally kept at bay from his family. He was attached to his grandmother who moved away when Bobby was 12, and to her house (Bobby still visits three times a year), and to Delia, the housekeeper, nurse, maid, and cook who lived with the family for 5 years before passing in 1957. Bobby relates, “My father came home at 5:30 pm. It seems to me he had a great lunch. The browbeating, insulting, glib, disregarding, he levied on us because 'he wanted to eat' was not because of hunger. It was contempt .. gloom and doom.” Bobby talks of “covert, inherent abuse in the person of my father.” Delia was home alone all day every day with no food in the house, and Bobby’s father only gave her a little meat as she sat away from the table at dinner. Bobby says, “I only knew my mother never was home. She shopped at day's end to bring groceries home. Ms. Delia just faded away.” Bobby is now a member of the NAASCA family! He helps the homeless, the downtrodden, the public safety community, in 12 Step groups, and other remarkable service. Hearing there was a shortage of surgical and medical masks, his latest endeavor is sewing them himself, to be used in his local medical community. He offers us the pattern, for any others that may be so inclined. An observant Jew, and an active member of his synagogue, you never know where Bobby might pop up!