00:00I realized many a times that my dad would threaten us.
00:04There were times when he would threaten me and say that he would shave my head bald and drown me
00:09in the tub.
00:10The cops, they placed us in foster care.
00:13They took my parents to jail the day that they found us because we kind of explained to them what
00:18happened.
00:19I lived in fear for a long time.
00:21I didn't think I was going to survive.
00:23We were placed in foster care.
00:24My sister and I were placed together and my brothers were placed together in a separate home.
00:28So they moved me from a Christian family to a Muslim home.
00:31And while I was at the Muslim home, I was sent by his friend and removed and placed with another
00:37family friend.
00:38They were threatening to send me back home.
00:41We were sent with another family, foster family, stayed with them until I was 17.
00:46So whenever I was placed with a foster family friend, whenever he said to me, I spoke up and I
00:54talked to a caseworker.
00:55Whenever I was placed with the last foster parents I was with, I never felt like I was truly loved.
01:03I didn't feel like we had a safe home.
01:05My foster mom and I, along with my foster dad, we kind of got into a big argument.
01:09At one point, it did get physical.
01:12So I was, from there, they kicked me out.
01:15And I went to go stay with a friend at the time.
01:18So I stayed with her until I graduated high school.
01:20And then from there, I just decided to look into law enforcement.
