- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Pinnacle Books,U.S. (27 May 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786016701
- ISBN-13: 978-0786016709
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 303,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On Sunday May 2, 1993 in Lantana, Florida, a town in the Palm Beach area, the naked body of ten-year-old Andrew "A. J." Schwarz was found floating facedown in the family's backyard swimming pool. But how could he have drowned when the water level was only four feet deep? And why was his body covered with cuts and bruises from head to toe? Suspicion soon fastened on the dead boy's stepmother, Jessica Schwarz, who boastfully described herself as "loud and crude." She was a brute and a bully - but was she a torturer and child killer? Investigators unearthed a pattern of nightmarish physical and mental abuse that she had inflicted on the boy, one that left even hardened police sleuths sickened. During her trials, Jessica Schwarz was smugly defiant, until convictions for criminal child abuse and second-degree murder wiped the smirk off her face. She is now serving a seventy-year prison term. Carol J. Rothgeb, author of "Hometown Killer", and Scott H. Cupp, the prosecutor who successfully convicted Jessica Schwarz, now tell the riveting inside story of how a brutal killer's reign of terror was finally brought to an end.
From the Author
I want to thank all the readers who slugged their way through this emotionally exhausting account of A.J.'s short life. I am still involved in prosecution and have tried many, many cases, but for many reasons I could not leave A.J. behind. I am not an author and at present have no plans for another book. Please read his story, tell a friend and perhaps if enough people read about what actually happens to children change will happen.
Thanks,
Scott H. Cupp
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44 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
After reading "No One can Hurt Him Anymore" by Carol J. Rothgeb and Scott H. Cupp, I was moved to tears by this beautifully written and researched book. The story is about the short sad life of Andrew Schwarz nicknamed A.J. and his subsequent murder by his stepmother Jessica Schwarz. The constant humiliation, physical abuse, mental abuse inflicted on this young boy by his stepmother on a daily basis was heartwrenching to read. I have a ten year son whom I love very much and this made Andrew's story especially poignant.
Andrew Schwarz was a brave courageous boy, he was liked by everyone, he did not bear malice to anyone. Mrs. Idrissi. Andrew's 3rd grade teacher noted that he was one of the most afectionate kids in her class and that he was friendly, bright with a good sense of humour admiral qualities in every child and especially more so in Andrew's case for he had every reason not to be.
The only part that I disagree with is a reference to what would A.J. would have turned out like in the Afterword by Scott H.Cupp if he had survived the relentless physical and psychological pounding he received. I cannot see Andrew Schwarz growing up to being a voilent man or at a stretch to see him as a relentless killer, not all children who are abused turn into abusers.
Andrew Schwarz was a courageous and loving boy, if he had lived he would have made a fine man inspite of all the abuse inflicted on him by Jessica Schwarz unfortunately he did not live to prove it.
22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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This book has to be one of the saddest that i have ever read. It is the story of the very short life of ten-year-old Andrew Schwarz also known as A.J. After moving in with his natural father David and his Step-Mother Jessica this child had a day to day battle with degradation, both mental and physical abuse at the hands of his evil step-mother. Till one day in May of 1993 A.J was found naked floating in the families backyard pool. The writer of this book Scott Cupp takes you on a journey from when the body was first found to the courtroom drama that followed and the ultimate fate of Jessica Schwarz.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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i have read hundreds of true crime stories but this one has stayed with me for a very long time. i am interested in child abuse books because they are so often kept secret. I feel it is only in the last few years that anyone has dared to write about it. A child called it seemed to open the flood gates and now we are seeing book after book about the subject. Although I think this is a great thing and will help us understand and watch out for the signs I wonder if this is motivated by money. I would stress not on the part of the victims but the publishers.
I have to applaud the writer of this book because i felt his pain and love for a.j and i feel the only reason he wrote the book was to honour aj s life. there has hardly been a day in the six months since i read this book that i have not thought about aj and the life that he led. i agree with another reviewer that it is the saddest book that i have ever read. another book that i have read recently is a beautiful child and i recommend that to anyone who found aj,s story fasinating but harrowing. I deceided only to read books where the child survived the abuse but i came across this book by accident and it has given me another
dreadful insight how our fellow human beings can inflict pain and degregation on someone for a long period of time
I have to applaud the writer of this book because i felt his pain and love for a.j and i feel the only reason he wrote the book was to honour aj s life. there has hardly been a day in the six months since i read this book that i have not thought about aj and the life that he led. i agree with another reviewer that it is the saddest book that i have ever read. another book that i have read recently is a beautiful child and i recommend that to anyone who found aj,s story fasinating but harrowing. I deceided only to read books where the child survived the abuse but i came across this book by accident and it has given me another
dreadful insight how our fellow human beings can inflict pain and degregation on someone for a long period of time
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AJ - no one can hurt him nymore
No One Can Hurt Him Anymore
This story, as you can imagine, is very sad but the book is very well written and you simply cannot put it down. Read more
This story, as you can imagine, is very sad but the book is very well written and you simply cannot put it down. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Wendy York
poorly written book
Felt this book was really poorly written, no real direction or narrative skills displayed by the author's. Read more
Published 16 months ago by emma
No one can hurt him anymore
Hmmm got a bit bored of this one half way through, so have stuck a bookmark in for a later date.
Published on 29 Aug 2009 by C. A. Lawes
so so sad
This has to be one of the saddest books I have read in a long time, that poor little boy was treated so cruelly and although his dad was not charged he was just as guilty and... Read more
Published on 25 Jan 2009 by Mrs. D. Hume
Tears your heart out..
While reading this book you keep asking yourself `why isn`t anybody doing anything ?`
I found myself becoming more and more angry as neighbours described - AFTER this little... Read more
I found myself becoming more and more angry as neighbours described - AFTER this little... Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2008 by Leeds lass
how many more
what got me stirred up was the fact that his real mother was not any better towards him i got very angry. Read more
Published on 17 July 2007 by tracey homes
the saddest book i've ever read
I'm a huge fan of true crime books and thought this one looked like a very good read, i wasn't wrong. But I didn't realise how very sad and upsetting it would be. Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2007 by Mrs. S. J. Zammit
way too sad
i have read a lot of true crime and this one has affected me the most. the poor child had a rotten life . i cried on and off the whole way through this book . Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2006 by Janet Evans
What A Book
I could not put this book down once I started reading it. It is one of the sadest books I have ever read, I can not believe that nobody helped this little boy escape this life he... Read more
Published on 29 Oct 2005
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