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.
