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Lisa DeJong
The Plain Dealer

"Survivor's Journey"


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Phillip Francis, younger brother of David Francis, in the Massachusetts Treatment Center, a prison for sex offenders. Their father, a pimp, beat all of the boys. "I spend a lot of time crying. It's not my fault I was born, I didn't ask to be born, and I don't know what would possess any man to hurt a child like that, especially his own family," he says of his father.
 

 

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