Episode 8: 'I Want Someone to Love Me Even for a Second'

Caught

WNYC Studios

Politics, Society & Culture, Documentary, News, True Crime

4.9 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Girls make up only a small fraction of the incarcerated juvenile population, but girls often land in detention because they have experienced some form of trauma: abusive families, bad experiences in the foster care system, and especially sexual abuse. Policy experts even use the term "sexual abuse to prison pipeline," and they say it’s why incarcerating a young girl perpetuates more negative behavior and makes it harder to exit the system. Desiree is a young woman who has bounced between foster care, detention centers, and residential treatment centers since she was 10. Even though she has been the repeated victim of abuse, she says she's been made to feel like she's the problem...and she's angry about it. But she has her own ideas about how to make things better and she’s making her voice heard. Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice is supported, in part, by the Anne Levy Fund, Margaret Neubart Foundation, the John and Gwen Smart Family Foundation, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

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0:00.0	Listener supported WNYC Studios
0:07.0	I want to be in movies. I want to act.
0:12.0	You know, like, you ever watch, like, teen movies, like, what's that?
0:15.0	Bad, Mean Girls, Ming Girls.
0:17.0	I want to be, like, one of the words.
0:20.0	Desiree is 17, and what she craves most is the carefree life of a spoiled teenager.
0:28.4	And you want to experience that?
0:30.9	Yes.
0:31.5	Even if it's just in a movie.
0:33.6	Even if it's just a movie.
0:36.0	Yeah, if I can just act it out and pretend this is happening and I can watch myself over and over again, I'm fine with that.
0:42.2	Yes, material things are part of the appeal.
0:45.5	Nice car, nice house, good clothes.
0:48.2	But it goes deeper than that.
0:50.0	Like, the schools is just so nice.
0:52.5	They're like, they got everything they want in their school.
0:55.5	Desiree wants the basics, a decent school, a home, friends,
1:01.0	and maybe most of all, a nurturing mother.
1:03.8	They can bring home company, and their mom will cook for their company,
1:07.6	cook for them, wash the dishes, wash their clothes, get their clothes out.
1:12.3	Like, I would want something like that.
1:15.4	Have you ever had any of that?
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