My Story in Short Form

I was born in the Bronx. New York City and grew up in Staten Island. My father sold drugs, and prostituted women were in and out of our home. They turned tricks upstairs. My father eventually went to prison. My mother was stabbed seven times, I heard it happen. My sisters and I had to go to foster care. I was 4 years old and heard her being raped almost every night by the foster father in the next room. There was a huge case and she was removed. With so much abuse and violence I ended up in a gang and as a young teen, drugs, guns, women and prostitution was all around me. They came for me and I didn't realize I had a choice. Getting a human trafficking charge was not in my plans for life. I had dreams a  child. But as Dr.Bello, said, children often become what they see and so I have to choose. I can't change my past, but I can change my future.