Step Parent's 5 Year Sentence

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Timothy lived with his mom for many years before being sent to live with his father and stepmother in Detroit. Here his step-mother beat him until he was later sent to live in a Children’s Psychiatric Hospital for three years. As a resident in the psychiatric hospital, he was drugged and handcuffed. One day Timothy woke up and was told his father had passed away, this lead to his step mom abandoning him in Detroit, this forced Timothy to support himself which lead to furthering the development of the bad lifestyle imitated by his mother. Timothy’s first jail sentence was 21 days, but it wasn’t long until he received a 5-year sentence. When Timothy experienced his first murder in the prison it was the first call to change his life where he looked

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