Wiley Family's Past

Pearl Martin with her grandson John as a baby. When mother Irene became mentally unstable and was briefly institutionalized, John -- then 4 – moved in with his paternal grandmother. But that was short-lived and after her death he was returned to his parents and an abusive home. "My father was a sick man," said John Wiley. "My parents always fought...They should never have had children." (Courtesy of Wiley family )