STORIES FROM HOMELESS FORMER FOSTER CHILDREN:
Meet James Robinson, 18 years in and out of foster care, never adopted.
“Never met my parent’s. Don’t know anything about them. I aged out. I never did get adopted. I’m not exactly sure 100% why. But I do know out of 1,972 different foster homes (he claims he lived in), 1764 of them I was physically abused. Out of that much, it was only four homes I was molested.”
“A case worker of mine in New York told me, my dad had never appeared in the hospital and my mother had just left and never returned. And I believe someone was trying to fight for custody for me and that’s my step father, James Robinson. What got me in trouble is my step father had raped me 37 hours in less than six hours.”
He says his step father dropped him and his half brother Lewis at DYFS in New Jersey.
“DYFS sucks man, that’s all I can say. DYFS really sucks.”
James clearly remember his past in a way that helps him to cope with his present. He admits to years of therapy and embellishes every aspect of his life. What is the truth? Probably no one really knows. The present truth is that he is a young homeless man with a lifetime history of foster care, physical and sexual abuse, abandonment and despair.
His future? Only he can change that. James currently lives at Covenant House New Jersey
STORIES From Homeless Former Foster Children 