Getting Adopted By A Predator Changed Her Life

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Welcome to Unfiltered Stories! LaTrecia Thomas shares her powerful journey as an adoption survivor. Placed in foster care at just 3 years old, LaTrecia and her sisters endured unimaginable abuse at the hands of their adoptive parents, who were supposed to provide safety and love. Instead, they faced a horrifying reality. In this heartfelt interview, LaTrecia recounts the trauma, the legal justice that followed, and her path to healing. Join us as she shares her inspiring story of survival and resilience.   #survivorstories #healingjourney #adoption #familysecrets #childhoodtrauma   Follow LaTrecia here:  https://a.co/d/5hhvIJG  https://a.co/d/3fhJAwv  https://www.tiktok.com/@write_her  https://www.instagram.com/the_blavkrobe    Thank you for watching Unfiltered Stories! We offer a platform for our guests to speak openly about their life stories and journeys, shedding light on the challenges they faced and the resilience they've shown.   Our mission is to raise awareness about survivors by delving into their stories, exploring the impact of their experiences, and how they've managed to heal and rebuild their lives.  By sharing these stories, we aim to break the silence surrounding those challenging memories and create a compassionate environment.   🌅 FOLLOW US 🌅  Facebook ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredFB  Tiktok ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredTT  Snapchat ➮ https://tinyurl.com/UnfilteredSN

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00:00My name is Latricia Thomas. I am here to tell my story about being adopted by a child predator and

00:06a child abuser. I was about three years old and my parents had six kids so we were separated once

00:12we were entered into the system. The three oldest went to one home and the three youngest went to

00:17another. So I at three instantly became the oldest because I had my two sisters with me. We ended up

00:24being in a home of a lady called Annie Mahone there in Akron, Ohio which is where I was born.

00:29Annie Mahone was interesting. I was so young it was like my first experience of ever being in a

00:34foster home so I would spend most of my time in my bedroom. I turned five years old while I

00:40was there

00:40so I ended up going to elementary school. One day I come home from school and Miss Mahone's like hey

00:46you guys need to get your hair done and I bought you new outfits I'm going to take you somewhere

00:49to

00:50get your pictures taken. We get in the car and we get to this huge studio and in the back

00:55of this

00:56studio there was a field and when I showed up there were a bunch of kids there. The photographers told

01:02us go run go play we're going to take pictures of you all. They captured the photo that would get

01:07me

01:07adopted. Later that evening when we came when we came home they showed these pictures on the news.

01:13So they broadcast us across Ohio, Pennsylvania, Unsure, New Jersey. It's the youngest photo I have of

01:20myself and my sisters and this photo got us adopted. We went to this adoption agency. It was

01:26a leave-through and adoption agency. That's who handled it. So we get there and we meet this couple

01:31Carol and John Thomas and when we meet them they were like ecstatic to meet us. The man John Thomas,

01:38my adoptive father, he was very touchy. Picked us up. He was throwing us around. He was playing with us

01:44very active. He had this cold tooth in his mouth. I've never seen anyone with a cold tooth in their

01:49mouth so I paid very close attention to like how he was. But Carol Thomas, I was mesmerized by her.

01:56I mean she just looked like someone you would want to be your mom. She hugged us. She was obsessed

02:01with

02:01us. She touched our hair. You know she pissed our faces. She was very motherly. I was finalized in my

02:08adoption on June 6th of 1996. So I go to this couch and I sit on it. This was like

02:14the first day.

02:15Carol Thomas, she's upstairs. She's doing her thing. John Thomas is running in and out of the house.

02:19They're putting stuff in the car. They're doing these things. And Carol Thomas comes upstairs.

02:23She's like who told you you can sit on this couch? And so I'm confused. I'm like oh I didn't

02:27know that

02:28I couldn't sit on the couch. I'm sorry. She goes don't get an attitude. She'd never done that before.

02:33She'd never erased her voice really at me like that before. So I was like I'm not giving you an

02:37attitude.

02:37And one thing she used to always say to me is that right there that makes me feel like you

02:41have an

02:41attitude with makeup or problems. I always would scrunch my face up like that. It's just something

02:45I do. She got very angry. She grabbed me by my arm. She was yelling at me. She went and

02:50got

02:50ascension cord. And for the first time on the day of my finalization Carol Thomas beat me with

02:55ascension cord. My sisters were standing on the stairs. John Thomas was walking through like nothing

03:00was happening. And she beat the crap out of me. And I just remember like having all these welts up

03:06and

03:06down my legs. And like crying profusely. And my sisters like huddled around me. And after she

03:12finished this episode again had never even seen her act this way. She was like stop crying. You're

03:17gonna be fine. Listen from now on. She's like stop it. She's like sit over here. And there was like

03:23there's a red recliner that was catty cornered in our living room. And between the recliner and there

03:28was a long couch here. But the couch I sat on was like over here. She's like sit here. She

03:32puts me in

03:33this recliner. And I'm just sitting there. My sisters come and huddle beside me. And I'm crying.

03:38About an hour and a half goes by. And we're getting in the car. And people are coming over

03:42and taking pictures. And she's like straighten up. Don't cry. Let that go. And that's what I did.

03:48I straightened up. Stopped crying. I wiped my tears. And I just got thrown into the day. We get in

03:53the car.

03:53Everyone's taking pictures of us. We get to the courthouse. We get finalized. We take pictures with the

03:59judge. The caseworkers are there. Everyone's taking pictures with us. We get all these gifts. We go

04:03out to dinner. Her sons are there. Their families are there. Grandparents are there. We're celebrating.

04:08We're now Thomas's. I've just become Latricia Thomas. How did I feel? I felt excited. But I

04:15didn't know what I was excited about. I just kind of was going with everyone else's emotions. Because

04:19I didn't really understand what adopted meant. So from this point on after our finalization

04:25everything started to die down. There were no caseworkers coming by anymore. Carol and John Thomas

04:31were also still foster parents. So we had foster kids coming in and out of our house

04:36all the time. After about a year of me and my sisters, after our adoption, us being adopted

04:42there, we got a set of twins. Fraternal twins came. We fell in love with them. Me and my sisters

04:47fell in love with them. The Thomas's fell in love with them. But their mother wasn't ready

04:51to let them go. But they just kept coming back and forth. And then one day it was like,

04:55hey, can you keep these kids? The caseworker. The thing that's interesting about that is

05:00the caseworkers were coming in terms of like foster kids. But it was almost like me and

05:05my sisters were invisible. You know, it's like these caseworkers were coming backwards and

05:09forth. And they're bringing these kids, but no one was really paying attention to what was

05:13going on with me and my sisters. John Thomas, he just started becoming creepy. And when I say

05:20creepy, I mean, like I'm in the tub taking a bath and he like just stands in the doorway

05:24or he's watching me like get dressed. And I'm a seven year old kid. And so I didn't know

05:31if it was wrong or right that he was watching me get dressed because no one ever said anything

05:36to me about it. I guess this is okay. He's supposed to be my dad. So once the twins come

05:41and they're there permanently, they're in a room downstairs. My sisters and I were sleeping

05:47in a bigger room, the bigger room on the third floor now. And like I said, John Thomas was

05:52just frequently coming to my room, frequently just being there whenever I was unclothed

05:58and just being creepy. So summer of 97 comes, there was two conjoining rooms on the, on the

06:05bottom floor. The twins slept in two cribs there. And between the floor, there was plenty of room

06:09for you to like cuddle up and bundle in there. So that's what we would do. John Thomas put air

06:12conditioners in there. He closed the door and made that very cool so that we could all sleep

06:16and they're in sleep and air conditioning. So one day I'm outside, I'm playing, I'm being

06:20a normal kid. I'm just enjoying myself. I come in, I have dinner and getting ready for

06:25bed. Everyone's in the room. They're going to sleep. John Thomas is still downstairs.

06:29Carol Thomas is in her bedroom. She's falling asleep. All of us kids are falling asleep.

06:33I'm laying in like a sleeping bag with a blanket over top. I hear the door open to the room

06:39that

06:39all of us kids are in, but I'm still asleep, but I can hear that the door opens. So I

06:43kind

06:44of like look around and I see John Thomas walk into this room, but then I'm just laying there

06:49sleeping. John Thomas lays down behind me and he puts his arms around me. I don't move.

06:54Just laying there. The crazy thing about it is there's a window here. So I can see like the

07:00streetlight outside shining in on one of the twins in the crib. I'm laying to the side. He has his

07:07arm

07:07around me and he smells like cigarettes and cheap beer. He used to drink natural light beer all the

07:16time and he smoked cigarettes and I can feel him like breathing on me. And then he sticks his hands

07:22in my, in my underwear and he starts touching me inappropriately. I am again at a point where I'm

07:28like, is this normal? Because she's right in there. So, okay. After this is over, it lasts for about

07:35five, 10 minutes of him laying behind me, fondling me, touching me. He gets up, he goes out the door

07:41to the room we're in. I hear him walk down the hallway, go into the, his bedroom door, and I

07:46hear

07:46him get in his bed. I'm just laying there awake. I eventually fall asleep. I wake up the next morning

07:51and it's summertime. I use the bathroom. I go downstairs and he's standing in the kitchen making

07:57breakfast. And I just look at him and he looks at me and nothing was said about it. I was

08:01just

08:02very confused. By the time we get around to the twins being finalized because the twins are finalized

08:10within a year. So by 98, my twin brother and sister are finalized. John Thomas was doing this every

08:17day. Didn't matter where I was or where I was sleeping. He was ramping it up. He would come

08:21in the bathroom and watch me shower. He would come to my room and just stand in the doorway, watch

08:26me

08:26dress. He would start doing very cruel punishments to all of us. So Carol Thomas, again, she's in the

08:35house when all this is happening. Carol Thomas would just allow him to do whatever he wanted to us.

08:40So outside of John Thomas sexually assaulting me, sexually abusing me, he was very physically abusive

08:47to me and my siblings. He would beat us with PVC pipes. He would beat us with cinching cords. He

08:53would

08:53stick his fingers down our throats to make us throw up. He would make us slap each other, make us

08:59punch

09:00each other in the stomach. Carol Thomas would be sitting there while this was going on. We had this

09:04grate in the middle of our house. It was over our furnace. And I described the living room earlier

09:10with that recliner there, couch here, mirrors on the wall, big grate in the middle of the floor,

09:15tidy heat the whole house. Because these are these old row houses. So there's a literal furnace there.

09:20John Thomas would make us stand on that when it was hot as a punishment. For literally anything

09:25that we did, if you didn't finish your dinner, if your room wasn't cleaned the way he wanted you,

09:29your room would be cleaned. If we didn't clean up after the dogs the way he wanted us to. For

09:33literally

09:34anything, you could be standing on this grate. And until this day, I've burned those marks on the

09:39bottom of my feet. So do some of my siblings. Carol Thomas, I realized as they adopted more children,

09:46she had to be home more. So she ends up leaving her job, you know, because the twins are toddlers.

09:52I'm still fairly young. I'm only eight years old. So she started taking on more responsibility of like

09:57a foster mom, you know, so we started getting more kids coming in and out. And I want to give

10:02her the

10:02benefit of the doubt literally this much. I think she was scared because she was in a marriage before

10:09and have gotten divorced. She had her sons. That man, for what she tells me, abused her. When she met

10:16my adoptive father in a club in Philly, she was physically attracted to him, but he was seven years

10:22younger than her. He's from Jacksonville, Florida. She's lived in Europe, Pennsylvania all her life.

10:27She meets this man that's younger than her. I guess she falls in love and she finds out nothing about

10:32him.

10:33So although I always have met all of Carol Thomas's family, her mother, her father, her siblings,

10:38I've never met any of John Thomas's family and she didn't really meet any of them either. I can't

10:43tell you if this man has ever had any biological children that are alive. Pennsylvania gave them

10:49awards for adopting us. They would do so much for our family. We were in the newspaper for them doing

10:56this miraculous thing. They adopted these six kids that, you know, and they always say that nobody

11:01wanted, nobody wanted. You should be happy that these people took you in. Yet, in my own opinion,

11:06there wasn't enough research put into Carol and John Thomas and who they were as people. So with

11:12that being said, that is a little bit of a benefit of doubt I will give Carol Thomas. She was

11:15a very

11:16damaged person who made it known that she was damaged, yet was still allowed to adopt children.

11:21John Thomas, on the other hand, a whole facade, everywhere that he went, people loved. When I say

11:26people loved him, I mean, yes. John Thomas assaulted me every day. He got to a point where it didn't

11:31matter where I slept in the house, who was around. He had complete control over me. Carol Thomas

11:37relinquished, basically, her control. He turned me into a tomboy that he was sexually assaulting.

11:43Like I said, we lived in York, Pennsylvania. By the time all of us were adopted, they needed a bigger

11:47house. Once we get to this house, I'm 12 years old. We move in. Big, beautiful house. They have their

11:54room. The twins have their room. My little brother has his room. And me and my two sisters slept in

11:58a big

11:59room in the basement. I'm 11, 12 years old. I'm in middle school now. And I'm frequently writing all

12:04the time. I'm writing all the time because I'm being molested on a regular basis. So I'm always

12:10heavy into a diary, heavy writing stories. And then, you know, my best friend died of cancer.

12:16So, and they refused to let me go to her funeral. So I had all this trauma that was just

12:20like,

12:20I didn't know what to do with it. So I was just writing it down everywhere. And so while Carol

12:25and

12:25John Thomas are beating us in every situation they can, they're making us run up and down the

12:30stairs for hours upon hours. John Thomas is one of his favorite punishments was for him to fill

12:36the bathtub up with ice cold water, hold you down in that ice cold water, and then send you out

12:41into

12:41the winter, into the snow. We would be butt naked. Sometimes he'd make us sleep on the floor of our

12:45garage. Some of my siblings would start going into hypothermia. He would just wrap them in blankets.

12:50He would slap us in the face. Like I said, use the PVC pipes. And I told you I was

12:55going to be graphic

12:56because I had written about this. John Thomas invented this punishment for me where, and he would

13:01only do it, it would only be me and him, but he would make me lay on the floor to

13:06make me spread my

13:06legs. And he would beat me on my private area with a wire heat. Why he did this? I don't

13:12know, but this

13:13was one of the punishments he would give me. And again, I want to stress as well, Carol Thomas ended

13:19up

13:19developing diabetes. So she was home all the time. She had something called diabetic feet. So she

13:24barely like left the house. She didn't want to drive. At one point she just stopped driving. So

13:28everything was up to John Thomas. He had control over everyone. Once we moved to West Shore, none of

13:34her family was really close by. So no one was coming to visit. Her sons weren't coming around anymore

13:38because I feel like they had seen the change in her and that they just didn't want to be around.

13:44One of

13:44her sons, he was the only one I'd ever seen fight back against John Thomas and tell him like,

13:49you're a jerk. You're an asshole. You treat my mom bad. You know, you treat these kids badly.

13:54And I was so yellow when this was going on. It's just like these two grown men fighting.

13:58I had written in a diary. It was right before I turned 13 years old. I'd written in one of

14:02my

14:02diaries that I was going to run away and that if they found a Jane Doe, please come and check

14:07and

14:07see if it's me. Cause I'd rather leave here and be dead than to keep going through this because this

14:11man is

14:12touching me inappropriately. Carol Thomas found this diary. She read it. She asked me if it was

14:17true. I told her yes. Now the interesting thing about it, and this is why your channel is so

14:23important and why these stories are so important. When I wrote this in my diary, I put that John

14:27Thomas had been touching me inappropriately and he had been touching me inappropriately.

14:31She took that as I said that he had already raped. So she took me to a doctor to see

14:37if I still had my

14:38hymen. I went to this pediatrician. He said she in fact does still have her hymen. So she called me

14:43a

14:43dirty, nasty liar. She slapped me in my face. She made me lay on the bed. She spread my leg.

14:49She told

14:49me I smelled badly and I was disgusting. And that was it. She said I was a liar. I made

14:55the whole thing

14:56up and she didn't care. After this incident, it gave John Thomas the green light to go ahead and

15:01rape me, which he did. John Thomas took my virginity two days after my 13th birthday. After he took my

15:08virginity, I was sleeping in the room with my sisters. The day that he did it, my sisters again

15:13were sleeping in the room with me. Carol Thomas was upstairs in her bedroom sleeping. John Thomas

15:18basically told me to shut up and that nobody would believe me ever. Then he would switch and he'd be

15:24like, I love you. I'm going to be with you. Like when you turn 18, we're going to run away

15:28together.

15:28We're going to be together. I'm 13, by the way. Once that happened, he felt like I was too noisy,

15:33like I was too loud. So he made me move to a back bedroom in the basement. Now this back

15:39bedroom was

15:40a cinder block room that had one of those basement windows on it. And it was a very small room

15:45and it

15:46was off from the washer and where the laundry mat was. The laundry area was. Apologies. But it gave him

15:54access to me without anyone else being around because I was the only one in there. And I was just

15:59actively writing in my journals all the time. John Thomas was molesting me every day. He went to

16:04work at 10 o'clock at night at Walmart. He would come home at seven o'clock in the morning.

16:08He bought

16:08me a blue Nokia phone so that he could directly call me and tell me to wake up. He would

16:13come

16:13downstairs when he came in. He would molest me. He would go upstairs and go to his room. On the

16:17days

16:18that he was off, he would stay up very, very late at night drinking beer, watching the Girls Gone Wild

16:23commercials that came on late at night. And he would molest me in various places in our house.

16:28Several times I was caught with my pants down in a compromising situation. Carol Thomas was told

16:34about it. She would beat me relentlessly. I feel like I was protecting my sisters. However,

16:40John Thomas still touched my sister that's right under me, my middle sister. He still ended up

16:45molesting her. It just wasn't to the extent. And honestly, like I said, she was very nervous and quiet.

16:51So I feel like in his mind, he thought he could get away with doing it to both of us.

16:55But I don't know

16:56why he just kind of lost interest in doing it to her. When I realized how to put into words

17:02what was

17:02happening to me, it was at West York Middle School. We had this assembly. These people came and they

17:06were speaking to us about abuse, about children being abused, about what abuse means. And they

17:12had passed out this pamphlet. So I'd seen the word incest in this pamphlet. And when I read what that

17:18meant, it was the first time ever that I had the words for what was happening to me. But it

17:22scared me

17:23so much because I'm like, wait a minute, he's not my real dad though. So is this the same thing?

17:30So John Thomas, once he gets me into this room, once I'm in this room, he has this access to

17:35me.

17:36He's rating me on a daily basis. Any opportunity he can get to rate me, he's doing it. It was

17:40freezing

17:41in this room. So I was complaining about him. Like I'm freezing, I'm cold. So my adopted father,

17:46John Thomas, I write about this in the book as well. Very handy. Could build things from scratch.

17:52Very good with his hands. He ends up building a dry walled room in the basement, in the laundry

17:58area. No windows with a door on the front of it. This was my new bedroom. He built this bedroom

18:03for

18:03me. Before I got into this bedroom, while this bedroom was being built, I got pregnant. I didn't

18:09know I was pregnant because I didn't know what to expect when you miss your period because I just

18:14started getting periods. But he knew I was and he let it go for three months. One day he told

18:19me I was

18:19pregnant. And I said, what? I was scared. I cried. So he comes and gets me on like a Friday

18:25and he

18:25takes me to the Planned Parenthood. And I get to Planned Parenthood and they tell me, she's too far

18:30along for you to bring her to this facility. You're going to have to take her to this facility in

18:34Baltimore, Maryland. Carol Thomas didn't know though. We drive to Baltimore, Maryland. And for the first

18:40time ever, I had to walk through an anti-abortion protest. I'm 13 and a half years old. It is

18:48scary.

18:48He's right behind me. These people are, they're calling me a baby killer. They're telling me to

18:53find another way. They're shoving pamphlets in my face. I saw that fluorescent green vest come out

18:59and they pulled me in. I was verbally traumatized because I lived around the corner from a Planned

19:06Parenthood, my whole childhood. I would see these protests on my way to school, but it meant nothing

19:10to me because I didn't understand what was going on. I go inside to this facility. They do all the

19:16paperwork. He pays for this abortion. They give me something to make me drowsy, to make

19:21me woozy. And there's a woman sitting to the right of us. And she also had a young girl with

19:27her. And her and John Thomas are talking. So the woman's like, I can't believe I'm here.

19:32She said, is that your daughter? And he's like, yeah, it's my daughter. And she said, I can't

19:36believe I'm here. I don't want to do this. And he was like, yeah, mine was messing around

19:40with them boys. And I just remember, like, I'll never forget that he said that because

19:45how dare you? And why can't you just sit here and shut up because you're already putting me

19:50through something? So why are you going to lie to yourself further and make it seem like

19:54you're doing something for me? After the drink they gave me, I go in, I get the procedure done.

19:59I wake up, they give me orange juice and some crackers. I get in the car, we drive home. I

20:05walk

20:05through the back door. Carol Thomas goes, I heard you didn't feel good today. Now, mind

20:10you, I've been signed out early in the day. John Thomas wasn't at work or anything. So

20:14I've been going for hours with this person and you have no questions. So she goes, do

20:20you feel any better? And I was like, yeah, I guess I do. And she slowly bend over so I

20:24can see, touch your toes. So I bend over and I touch my toes. I get this sharp pain in

20:28my

20:28leg. I stand up straight and I go to walk towards the basement to where my room is. And I

20:33go

20:34down the stairs. I lay in the bed. I drift off. I wake up and I look into the covers

20:39and there's just blood everywhere. He comes downstairs. He sees this. He goes, I'm going

20:43to the group. I'm going to the pharmacy right now and go and get you your pain medicine,

20:47whatever. I'm like out of it because I have all this blood come out of me. I just had this

20:52procedure done. I'm laying there in the bed. He comes, he cleans all this up. There's no

20:56way that this is going on. And Carol Thomas, who is just upstairs, doesn't know what it is.

21:00But in my mind, I wasn't thinking about that. I just thought I'm lucky to be alive right

21:04now. One day I came home from school. I was 15 years old. She was in the bathroom. She

21:10swung the door open and she hits me. And something inside me was like, fight that. And so I did.

21:16I was so angry that day. Hitting her and punching. I'm telling you, you're not going to keep beating

21:20on me. You're not going to keep doing this to me. She ends up trip, trip back onto this

21:23couch. And I was, I was beating on her. I was hitting her and she starts screaming. And I hear

21:28someone tumbling down the stairs, like coming down real fast and it's John Thomas. And he

21:33grabs me once he comes into the living room and he like kind of throws me and she gets

21:38up and she's like coming toward me. And he's like, go to your room, go in the basement.

21:42And I opened the door. I run down the stairs and then my book bag comes flying down behind

21:47me. It hits me in my back. I get up. I go to the room that John Thomas had built

21:51for me.

21:51And I was sleeping in this room, regular. And now I had a bed in there, a dresser,

21:55little nightstand and this little SpongeBob clock that I've gotten for my birthday.

22:00They're upstairs arguing. She's like, oh, you're going to get your little. I hate her. She's this,

22:04that she's trying to tear our family apart, all these things. And, um, she said, I don't want to

22:09see her face anymore. John Thomas was like calming her down and saying all this stuff. John Thomas

22:14goes downstairs and says, you can't be upstairs anymore. You can't be upstairs. And you come home,

22:18go straight to your room. You cannot be upstairs at all anymore unless we let you up there.

22:21And he installed this lock to the outside of my door and he shut it. That's what the book is

22:27named after. The door that locked from the outside. On October 24th, 2006, I told the full story to

22:34somebody who helped me. And, um, when Beth heard this, she was flabbergasted. She, uh, told me,

22:40don't you worry. You go home like normal today. And by the end of today, I'm going to have you

22:44and

22:44your sisters and brothers out of there. And she kept her word. I got home that day. Carol Thomas was

22:49on

22:49the phone with children's services. And she was trying to recant her statement. She was trying

22:53to tell me to take it back. And I told her, no, I went down in my room and I

22:56actually fell asleep.

22:58A couple hours go by. My sister comes busing in my room. She's like, Trisha, wake up. They're here

23:02to take us. And my sister's like pouring down tears. I grabbed my gym bag. I throw some stuff in

23:07it. I

23:08run upstairs. Carol Thomas's sister is there. There's other people there. So Carol Thomas's sister

23:12pulled him to the side and she said, did he really do this? And I told her, yes, every day

23:17for

23:17the past 10 years. Yes. She said, okay, as well. The caseworkers come in. They told Carol John Thomas

23:23not to speak to us. They separated us again, the oldest and the youngest. I ended up going to

23:29Hanover, Pennsylvania with a lovely family, the Crump family. That family ended up taking in all

23:34six of us. They'd gone on to now adopt my younger siblings. I aged out before I could be adopted.

23:40They were a wonderful family. They saw us through the trial. The trial took about two years. It was

23:46public. It was all over the news. I was 16 years old, going to school every day, checking people's

23:52comments underneath articles about me and my siblings, getting death threat, being called

23:58all types of unsavory names. If it wasn't for my friends and my journalism teacher, I probably

24:02wouldn't have been able to get through that and the crops.

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