The Child who Hated to Go Home

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What if the promise of a fresh start turned into a nightmare you couldn't escape? Witness the chilling journey of Sebastian Kalinowski, who was uprooted from his familiar life in Poland to reunite with a mother he barely knew in the UK, only to find himself in a household fraught with darkness. At 14, Sebastian had to adapt to a new language and culture, all while navigating the treacherous waters of a family life under the oppressive shadow of his mother's boyfriend, Andrzej Lodziewski. This episode of Ravens Knock doesn't shy away from the grim reality Sebastian faced, exposing the harrowing tale of a bright, young boy subjected to a cycle of abuse that escalated with chilling consequences.

We explore Sebastian's transformation from a promising student beloved by his peers to a victim trapped in a world of cruelty, as Andrzej's volatile temper and need for control spiraled out of control. Despite the promising prospects that emerged as Sebastian settled into his new environment, his life was marred by the torment he endured at home. This is more than just a story of tragedy; it's a somber reminder of the resilience of the human spirit and the devastating impact of unchecked abuse. Prepare for an emotional journey as we unravel the circumstances that led to this heart-wrenching outcome, urging all listeners to reflect on the importance of vigilance and compassion. Listener discretion is advised.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

A mother leaves the UK to go get her son in Poland that she's only seen three times in ten years. He has to learn who she is, as she left him at four years old. He has to leave the only parent he's ever known, learn a new language and get new friends, and if that isn't hard enough, her and her boyfriend tortures him until he dies. This is the story of Sebastian Kalinowski. Please note that the content of this recording may contain graphic material, including torture, and explicit language may be used. The opinions are of my own and may be offensive to some listeners. They are my opinions, everyone has them and if you do not agree, then ignore them like an adult and move on. Listener, discretion is strongly advised. Hey Ravens, welcome to the Ravens Knock. I'm your host, amy. I want to thank you guys for liking, sharing and subscribing and also referring your friends. If you're not a premium member, you can do so for seven dollars a month, which is like a cup of coffee. It does help the show out, as podcasting is not free and you get ad-free content, bonus episodes that no one else gets. And with that said, let's go ahead and get started. It's 1055 am. 999 receives a call from a man regarding his girlfriend's son, who is 10 years old, who is unresponsive. Little did they know he had been unresponsive for the last two hours. It took two hours for them to cover their tracks so the medics could even come. The ambulance arrived within a minute. They had been sitting right there During the 999 call. Andre, the boyfriend of the mother, is heard pleading with Sebastian to wake up.

Speaker 1: 2:10

Sebastian Kalinowski was born in Poland in 2006 and his mother and father had split. His mother had him until he was four years old when she decided she needed a new life. Tilly was four years old when she decided she needed a new life, so she moved to the UK and left Sebastian in the custody of his father. Sebastian stayed with his father for ten more years. During that time she only saw Sebastian three times, three times in ten years. As Sebastian became a teen, he began to do what teens do act up. His father became concerned that he was hanging around the wrong crowd and he was also getting into some trouble with the police, so he contacted his mother, agony Skirt, and asked if Sebastian could come live with her for a while. You know, it may do him some good. She agreed she had set up a new life for herself, and it wasn't long after she had moved to the UK that she met and moved in with a man named Andrzej Lodziewski. He was active in martial arts and he was a bodybuilder.

Speaker 1: 3:31

Agony comes to Poland and picks Sebastian up. Sebastian is 14 years old. This had to be hard for him. He's going with a woman he basically doesn't know, leaving the only parent he does know, losing all of his friends and leaving behind the only place he has ever known and going to a country he has never been or he can't even speak the language. But Sebastian would surprise you, he excelled. He loved it there. His teachers described him as being very polite, respectful and extremely smart. He was fun-loving, quick-witted, handsome and was very good at math. He made lots of new friends and he made them quickly. He would always dress very well and he was very much on his appearance. He would joke with his tutor and correct her when she tried to speak Polish.

Speaker 1: 4:31

Agony and Andre would go to the gym every day and they would tie box. Andre was described as having a volatile temper. He took steroids and had roid rage, as some like to call it. They said he would fly off the handle for no reason. He didn't like the fact that Sebastian had came and disrupted his household, but he did like the fact that he now had someone that he could dominate and control, and he took that to the extreme During all of this agony would do nothing. At times she would encourage Andre or include herself during all of this torture. Sebastian had to call him Sir or Mr Andre.

Speaker 1: 5:16

It started as verbal abuse and he was not included as a member of the family, and when Christmas came around, he was not included. They then began to beat him over the smallest of things, like if he went to the bathroom in the middle of the night or if he had dropped crumbs on the floor as he was eating. Andre would use Sebastian as a human punching bag. He punched him, kicked him, kneed him in his head. He makes Sebastian do intense exercise drills. He beat him with an electrical cord. What is it with the electrical cords? It seems that that is just as common as a belt. He made him sit on a stool and stare at a wall for hours. It would beat him in that area. That would be covered up by clothing at first.

Speaker 1: 6:11

On January 28, 2021, andre decides he's going to start recording everything. So he sets up all these cameras all over the house. One day he called him a whore and a piece of shit. As Sebastian is picking food up out of the floor and Andre was beating the soles of his feet with a broken staircase spindle, Sebastian is screaming in pain and Andre is verbally abusing him. He was accused of lying and he was being punished, but Sebastian hadn't lied at all. It was just an excuse to beat him. Now this beating left bruises that people could see, so they had to keep him out of school and they did so, stating that he was sick. Even Agony. His mother, tells him on camera that he's a piece of shit. She tells Andre that she had already smacked him in his gob, which is his mouth, and asked him to sort him out.

Speaker 1: 7:12

On Easter 2021, andre comes into the school, shouts at the staff and tells them that Sebastian has lied and he is lazy. The teachers, of course, are dumbfounded because he's like a model student and they don't believe this at all. Sebastian becomes even more absent from school, citing illnesses, any flags, anyone, especially after Andre's outburst. Andre is on film beating Sebastian with a bed slat, an electrical cable, and he's hitting him on the bottom and on his back. Sebastian is bruised and he is bleeding. Andre would pause and he would pose and admire himself in the mirror, then continue with the beating. This man like I have no words. He's like an infection, an agony. What's agony doing? Oh, she's watching. When the holidays came, it was a living hell for him. Summer came, july 2021. Agony launches an attack on Sebastian for no reason. She holds him down on the couch and begins punching him in the head with a shoe. Later that day, andre shouts in Sebastian's face and punches him several times, slings him across the room and then stomps on his head. He then makes him kneel on the floor, bends him over the bed and beats his butt with the slat of the bed.

Speaker 1: 8:53

On July 4th 2021, agony begins to worry about the way Sebastian is looking. She asks how is this piece of shit going to go to school with a gob like that? On July 30th 2021, sebastian is made to do squats, some push-ups on top of the injuries he has, and he is doing this. Andre decides to hit him on his back and in the side of the head over and over. He knees him, punches him in his chest, kicks him in his side, stomps him between his legs. During the 30 minutes that they watched, he was hit more than a hundred times. There was so much force and energy used. Andre would stop to remove the sweat from his forehead and face. You could also hear him catch his breath. What's Agony doing? Oh, she's watching and she's eating. Oh, how I wish she would have choked. He's beating the shit out of her son and she's eating. After this, sebastian is forced to do sit-ups and Agony hits him with a pillow. Later that morning, andre makes Sebastian go to his room, sit on the stool and face his wall for the rest of the day, from that morning till the rest of the day, just staring at the wall.

Speaker 1: 10:30

August 10th 2021, sebastian is made to do exercise again. Andre pushes down his shorts and you can see his scabs and the welts on his back and on his bottom. He whips him in the same spot over and over with an electrical cord, 59 times to be exact. The sheets and the bedding are covered with blood that Andre made him clean up. He continues to be whipped the entire day. He is also kicked, punched and forced to do more exercise. Agony puts weights in his hands to make it harder. She also grabs him, slaps him, punches him in the head. Sebastian never attacks them back. He appears very weak and it looks like he's having trouble breathing. At one point during the day they beat him. Now this is on tape for four hours straight.

Speaker 1: 11:27

August 12, 2021. Sebastian struggles to eat, so Andre forces food down his throat and also water. But wait, agony's got a brilliant idea. She decides to use the needles that Andre has already used when he shoots up his steroids, and she decides she's going to puncture Sebastian with them. Not only does she do this, but she even punctures him in the groin with these needles. Andre begins to hit and punch him, and this time he really goes for the stomach. And then he makes Sebastian go to his room and he follows. Agony and Andre hold him up so Andre could get a better target to hit him with. She tries to stuff a shoe in his mouth, but it doesn't work, so Andre stuffs a sock in his mouth.

Speaker 1: 12:25

August 13, 2021. Sebastian gets woke up early by Andre and it's obvious that he's in severe pain. Agony runs in the room and she grabs him by the throat, pushes him up against some furniture and, still holding his throat, she throws him onto the floor. Andre drags Sebastian to a bathroom. At 8 41, andre is seen carrying Sebastian out of the bathroom back to his room, carrying Sebastian out of the bathroom back to his room, but Sebastian is unconscious. There are no cameras in the bathroom, but it is believed that he submerged his head under the water and just before he drowned he would bring him back up and then dunk him again. At one point Andre does CPR, but do they call 999? No, andre pours water down his throat, thinking that it would make it look like an accidental drowning. He then disconnects all the CCTV cameras in the house and removes and hides the hard drive and calls work and tells them that I'm not coming in today because I got a big problem, you think. Then they call 999.

Speaker 1: 13:42

At 1055 am, the medical examiner found 81 separate injuries. He had a large blood clot in his liver. His heart muscle was damaged. He had muscle shearing to his left thigh and that's where the muscle and the connective tissues are torn from each other. He had a large number of scabs, open wounds to his lower back and his buttocks. The wounds were so deep that the fat had been stripped down to the muscle. He had 23 rib fractures. Now imagine he's having to do sit-ups, push-ups, and he's still getting hit, hit, punched, and he's having to do all these exercises with these injuries. The cause of death was infection caused by rib fractures which turned into sepsis, which leads to organ failure. He was murdered.

Speaker 1: 14:50

Less than a year that he was with his mother, police found the CCTV in the drawer in the living room. So much for hiding, so stupid. While they were in jail, andre rots to agony and he proposes to her she, yes, of course, but then she turns on him. Andre claimed that his punishments were reasonable. Agony said she was coerced into this and she didn't have a choice. She claimed that she was scared of him. The trial was so traumatic that the jury got a lifetime excuse from all future jury services. I'd never heard of that before.

Speaker 1: 15:38

On June 16, 2022, they ended up pleading guilty, and on July 14, pleading guilty. And on July 14th, andre decided to plead guilty to manslaughter. But on July 22nd, the jury found them both guilty of murder in less than three hours. They both got life, with a minimum of 39 years. Of 39 years, and you all know my opinion on that.

Speaker 1: 16:10

I think it's too lenient. I think they, you know, should be tortured. You know they should die as well. They shouldn't have any rights or anything like that because of what they've done. But you know, I'm not a judge and if I was, I would be severely loved and severely hated at the same time. Somebody would probably take me out. But if I could do what I wanted to do, a bunch of crime would stop. I guarantee you that. Regardless, I would be so inhumane as you all call it. But anyway, I hope you enjoyed this episode. Please don't forget to like, share and subscribe. It really helps us out. This has been a Southern Sass production Also. Guys just want to let you know that anytime, anytime at all, you all see child abuse. I want you to be able to have that number ready. It's good to have it in your phone just in case you can call or text it to the number 1-800-422-4453. That's 1-800-422-4453 and Ravens. Until next time, stay at arrest stops and be safe. Thanks for watching.