Eric C. Gottschalk was at the bottom of the pecking order in the Parkrose apartment he shared with a "street family" of young adults.
Prosecutors say the band's matriarch and its enforcer had the 23-year-old sign a contract in which he agreed to do whatever they said and gave them permission to beat him if he didn't. The contract was marked with Gottschalk's blood.
The band of mostly 18- to 25-year-olds didn't allow Gottschalk to sit on the apartment's furniture. Members punched him with brass knuckles and -- in one of the more violent incidents -- put him in the bathtub and poured hot cooking grease on his genitals, prosecutors say. - Oregonlive
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