224: What if they stole your childhood?

224: What if they stole your childhood?

“I didn’t get a chance to know who I was or who I should have become, and I will never know that person.”

Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits

Episode Summary: After a girl is saved from her abusive father, she finds solace in her mother’s 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" – Tipper

Music Bed: “Embers/Unknown Outcomes” – SkyeVoyager

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