“If I ever saw my parents again, I would ask them to forgive me for what I did. My father used to hit me when he was drunk, but he didn’t mean it”
Anthony is 20 years old and he ran away from his adoptive home when he was 11. His parents forced him to abandon his studies to take care of his younger siblings and he also had to sell peanuts to help the family economy. His father used to get drunk and abused him physically. Anthony was afraid of him. One day he lost the money earned and his mother told him that his dad would be very upset, he was so scared that he decided to leave and he has never come back since then.