Trying To Give Her A Normal Life

Although her life would be a little more stable while living with Ellenette, it still did not provide Cyntoia with a happy and balanced life, as so much damage had already been done to her from infancy onwards. By the time that Cyntoia was only around 6 years old, she would run away from home for the first time, and it wouldn’t be the last.

In And Out Of Foster Homes

Although she was a chronic runaway, she would still be around her birth mother, who reportedly prostituted herself in order to feed her drug addiction. And for a time, while in Clarksville, Cyntoia had a ‘stepfather’ who was also an excessive alcoholic who beat Cyntoia when he felt like it. She, and another friend, were known to drift along the streets as ‘runaways,’ and they began relying on what they could get off of other people while walking the streets in order to survive.