This episode was incredibly hard to record. I’ve been sitting with these stories for weeks, and I’m honestly disgusted.

Today, we’re looking at the Antelope Valley- Palmdale and Lancaster in California—a place that’s literally an hour’s disconnect from the Hollywood Hills and the ocean—where the system completely looked away, no matter how many calls were made or reports were written.

We’re honoring the lives of Gabriel, Anthony, and Noah by being their voice. Vanessa is telling their stories of abuse by the very hands that were supposed to protect them and love them the most.

Three boys. Dozens of reports. A "campaign of abuse" that should have been stopped.