For 4 years I saw a boy berated, beaten and subjected to the most humiliating punishment I can think of. I was 13 when my parents divorced so my mom and I moved to West Palm Beach. Next door was Alice, who was my best friend for a long time, her step brother Eric who was 10 or 11 at the time and Arlene who was 8 or 9. Their mother was Teresa and the step dad was Louis and not the real father to any of them. Alice did tell me she didn’t like Louis and said he spanked Eric a lot and pulled his pants down. My mom worked for a lawyers office and got home late a few nights a week. So Teresa said I could stay at their house after school. Eric was a brat, was always in some kind of trouble in school and in the neighborhood. The first time I saw Louis spank him was a few months after I moved there. In front of me, Alice and Arlene he made Eric pull down his pants and underwear and after making him bend over beat him with a belt. It was so obvious how embarrassed Eric was he not only cried but was shaking. This went on in the living room and Teresa never came out of the kitchen and never tried to stop Louis. He made him pull his pants down facing us and then had him turn around to get spanked. I not only saw his ass but saw his penis and testicles.

What Eric did that day was curse at a teacher. I just stood there a moment and without thinking about it said to Louis about how embarrassed Eric was. He just looked at me and said "young lady part of the punishment is the humiliation which is more effective than the spanking". That first year I saw Eric spanked like that about 10 or 12 times. That summer Louis called Eric in from the yard wearing only a bathing suit and made him take it off in front of me and the 2 girls before spanking him. Eric begged him not to make him take it off but Louis told him he would. I probably should have left the room but at the time I have to admit I wanted to see him naked. I think after that time Louis realize how much more it was mortifying for Eric if he was totally nude. For the next couple years each time he spanked Eric he made him undress.He would make him either bend over or bend over the arm of the sofa. That left Eric completely exposed to us where his genitals and his anus were clear to see. I think now that Louis intentionally did this knowing I would be there along with his step sisters who both had a different father. Eric was clearly petrified of Louis and it kept happening as Eric got older and had pubic hair. I think he was 15 or almost 15 the last time I saw him naked and getting spanked. Eric and another kid set fire to an abandon building and was sent away to a reformatory I think somewhere near Bradenton. He was probably better off there and when he got out never came back home. Even Alice lost track of him. This all went on between 1997 and 2001. I always wondered why Teresa allowed Louis to treat Eric so badly. Alice told me once that her mom was afraid of Louis also. He never seemed to bother the girls but was a monster to Eric.