Success Stories

Aisha was first sexually assaulted by her father when she was 4. When she was 7, one of her teachers noticed her walking with limp. Her mother, too ashamed to bring her to a doctor, let her fractured leg go untreated. After receiving treatment for her leg, Aisha was removed from her parents' care. Read More

Physical abuse at the hands of his parents had become routine for 6-year-old Brandon. For his safety, he had been removed from his parents’ care. But this was only the beginning of the young boy’s difficulties. Over the next two years, he bounced from one foster home to another; he lived in a total of six homes in just a two-year period. Chaos was the only consistent part of Brandon’s life. Read More

For 9-year-old Chase, the loss of his mother was the beginning of his nightmare. Shortly after her death, Chase’s father started hitting the bottle hard and hitting Chase even harder. Chase withdrew from social situations with other kids and began wearing long-sleeved shirts to cover his bruises, fearing that others would find out about his beatings. Read More

Derek was a superhero. But, unlike other kids his age, he didn’t dress up or have to pretend. To protect his mother, this superhero often found himself starring down the barrel of his father’s rifle. It was at his father’s hand that the small boy suffered through unpredictable beatings and constant threats of his father “blasting him away.” Read More