Summary: page 47-65

Harriet was enduring to much pain from the baby. She couldn't stand it so she asked her doctor to induce her at eight months. No one believed Harriet when she claimed the unborn child was a monster. For the first time Harriet had insisted giving birth in a hospital, everyone was surprised. Ben was not a pretty baby. He had a heavy shouldered hunched look, his forehead slapped from his eyebrows to his crown and he had greenish-yellowish eyes. Harriet was not interested in holding Ben after he was born.
David did not see Ben as ordinary. He would get mad at Harriet when she could not control Ben. Harriet only breast fed Ben for few weeks because he started biting her, giving her bruises. He ate two time more than a baby his age would. When his siblings tried to play with him he would just ignore them. Ben was very, very strong.
Harriet did not love Ben and David, the good father, hardly touched him. She tried playing with him everyday but Ben usually just hurt her with his strength. Their family didn't seem to like Ben either. One day Paul went into Ben's room alone and put his hand through the crib bars. Ben had grabbed his hands and pulled Paul hard against the bars, bending them backwards. Paul's arms were badly sprained. Ben was starting to destroy their family life and was now kept in his room like a prisoner.
Ben was a year old now and still wasn't able to speak. One day Harriet walked into the kitchen finding the dog dead on the floor. She blames Ben for it although he was in his crib. Couple months later the cat had been found dead just like the dog, strangled to death. Couple of weeks later Dorothy got a bad bruise on her arm. She refused to tell anyone what had happened and decided it was time to talk to Harriet and David about Ben.