His normal childhood life was shattered at 7 when his father, Rogelio, began an extra-marital affair. Huerta's mother, Lydia, was unaware of her husband's philandering and suffered a mental breakdown when she learned of it, Huerta said. His father gained legal custody of him and things briefly returned to normal. But in an attempt to flee the heartbreak, Lydia Huerta snatched her son from his home in Texas, without his father's permission, and fled to El Salvador, where her parents lived. She wasn't, Huerta said in a voice little above a whisper, stable enough to raise a child. After a short while, she fled the country, leaving him with her parents in the midst of a civil war in El Salvador. Lydia Huerta returned to claim him nearly a year later, but instead of raising him dropped him on his father's doorstep. That turned out to be a nightmare. Huerta says his stepmother physically and mentally abused him. His father took him to Mexico and left him with his paternal grandparents, who were living in near poverty and were in no position to raise an 8-year-old. Read More...

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