Richard Steeves's story traces how a brutalized, institutionalized childhood hardened into a decades long cycle of violence, escape, and premature trust that repeatedly failed the very people it was meant to protect. From that unraveling emerges a set of hard earned lessons about accountability, systemic fallibility, and the enduring difference between appearing reformed and truly being safe.

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