Chapter 32 Summary

There is another molester in Carlos' childhood. The year he lives in limbo without going to school, a man with a dog approaches him and Jorge. He tricked the boys to come with him while he urinated. He had Jorge stand guard and had Carlos at knife-point, commanding him to touch his penis. If it weren't for the local drunk, who started screaming from nearby, this molester would not have jumped and loosened his grip enough to let Carlos run away from him.

At first, Carlos didn't tell his mother, but eventually he did. His mother said all the things a mother should have at that point and scolded him for not having told his parents sooner. She said his father, as a judge, could have had him locked up. They found the dog that belonged to the man, but the people who...