When I was 9 years old I was quite the troublemaker. After my friend and I were playing with matches in my dad's garage and the neighbour caught us my parents sent me to this institution I shall not name as I agreed not to slander them as part of a lawsuit I settled. The worst thing I have ever been told is "if you tell anyone, nobody will believe you" after being sexually assaulted multiple times by a councilor while residing there. I spent 9 months of hell there and I never told anyone until years later when other kids who had suffered the same fate came forward and there was enough victims to file a class action. It literally stole my childhood from me, I was never the same again. I still get nightmares about that period of time.
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