Jamie Mustard

I was in a class for dumb kids.

They sent me home after six weeks in the class for dumb kids because I didn't have underwear.

Never went back.

Yeah, and we had chronic head lice.

We would get head lice so bad.

that our hair would look old and white before they would treat it.

We're talking about animalism.

Even when I was a kid in the baby factory, I'm spending the first two and a half years of my life staring up at a ceiling with little to no human touch.

There was one lady, and this was a generation after me, but they described as infants that we were kept inside so long that after six months when they would take us out, we were afraid of the sun.

Imagine being afraid of the sun in Los Angeles.

And this is all being a mile and a half from the Rampart Police Station, which historically is probably the most corrupt police station in U.S.

history, but still.

And so the human trafficking laws that would have saved my life didn't come into effect until the early 2000s.

The child trafficking and human trafficking laws.

But yeah, child labor.

When I'm eight years old, we'd moved into this old hospital.

Before it was blue, it was gray.

And while it was still gray, they had these air vents that they wanted to clean and they would put me in this oversized hazmat suit.

And I would spend all day with this stuff called navel jelly, which is a highly toxic compound scrubbing out these vents.

And at first it was like an adventure.