For what I've read on the topic, the fact that he saw his mom getting abused is statisticaly quite standard for an abuser. Not a waste of page, like you state @kronix, just character build up that nobody should take as an excuse for what he did either.
@b33fy
Actually, this exact situation is currently happening in several countries of the Guinea Gulf Coast : formerly colonial economy forcibly switched to chicago school liberalism under the influence of the IMF. Food production (mainly rice and millet) was sufficient to allow export but were...