What Was Killer Albert Fish's Childhood Like?

There, he and other children were regularly abused. According to Behavioral Health, caretakers would take children's clothes off and whip or beat them in front of each other in a form of "shame punishment." Later on, Fish would tell a psychiatrist that this is when his desire to inflict pain (and suffer it himself) had

There, he and other children were regularly abused. According to Behavioral Health, caretakers would take children's clothes off and whip or beat them in front of each other in a form of "shame punishment." Later on, Fish would tell a psychiatrist that this is when his desire to inflict pain (and suffer it himself) had started, as the beating at schools soon turned sexually arousing as he saw other children in pain.

School caretakers also encouraged children to hurt each other, a sadistic practice Fish would one day encourage in his own children. The orphanage provided no formal education for the children living there, so Fish had little mental or emotional escape from the abuse. Years later, he would tell a doctor (per ThoughtCo), "I was there 'til I was nearly 9, and that's where I got started wrong. We were unmercifully whipped."

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