Ep 8 – Kidnapped by the State: Abandoned, Humiliated, and Erased
21m | May 10, 2025💥 “The truth was all I had—but it wasn’t enough.”
After surviving a brutal assault, Bruce is imprisoned—without conviction, without support, and without justice. In this heartbreaking chapter of Three Times A Victim, he describes being “kidnapped by the state,” stripped of dignity, and left to suffer in silence.
🔒 What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
✔️ Pre-trial incarceration treated as guilt
✔️ The suicide smock as a symbol of shame and erasure
✔️ Family betrayal—refusing to pay bail, offer help, or believe him
✔️ Media distortion—portraying the perpetrator as a “girl” and Bruce as a monster
✔️ Public defender failure—no defense, just pressure to plead
✔️ Release into homelessness—seven months locked up, then abandoned to the streets
✔️ A glimmer of kindness from a woman offering hope, shadowed by shame and trauma
✔️ The pain of familial gaslighting by omission—no anger, no concern, just silence
💭 “If your own family won’t stand by you—who will?”
🎧 This episode reveals the crushing loneliness of being punished not just by the system—but by those who should have protected you.
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