224: What if they stole your childhood?

Published: March 1, 2022, 11 a.m.

\u201cI didn\u2019t get a chance to know who I was or who I should have become, and I will never know that person.\u201d

 

Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits

 

Episode Summary: After a girl is saved from her abusive father, she finds solace in her mother\u2019s protection, but when her mother meets a new man, an even greater menace threatens to take everything. 

 

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Content/Trigger Warnings: abuse of a child, graphic domestic violence, threat of murder, threat of rape, molestation of a minor, explicit language

 

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Intro Music: "Illabye" \u2013 Tipper

Music Bed: \u201cEmbers/Unknown Outcomes\u201d \u2013 SkyeVoyager

 

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