Joe Loya
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Everyone knows that now.
But back then he acted like I in the wrong.
Well, not long after that, I can't breathe very well.
It hurts to breathe, you know, when you have a cracked rib.
Broken ribs, yeah.
Yeah, it hurts to breathe.
And then my elbows, I'm starting to feel all the pain of it.
They get one of the female police officers to take me to the hospital, and then we find out that I've been brutalized.
You know, it's right there, x-ray show, everything.
So there's no more talk about punishing me for anything.
I was, you know, I was defending myself.
And then by that point, my dad had been arrested, and, you know, he said what happened.
Yeah, he admitted everything.
Oh, wow.
Everything.
Okay.
And he was contrite.
One thing I'll give my dad, after it was all said and done, obviously he never hit us again.
But when we went to foster care, because we went to foster homes and foster care, the county took us away from him.
Obviously, he was a delinquent father.