Joe Loya

I'm 16, so I'm sort of at the older age of the spectrum.

Now, it's McLaren Homes where you go.

When they take you from your parents initially, they put you in this big place.

You're taken out of the home, put in county care.

And it's just this big facility where you are while you're going to court.

You got to go to court to get taken from your parents officially and all that stuff.

And then they try to place you in foster homes.

But you have to stay somewhere until you're in a foster home.

And this is where they take you.

Like, first night, this is where you go, right?

It's been closed down now because a lot of abuse occurred there and all that stuff.

So it was terrible.

But in what I saw there when I was there, there was a lot of little kids.

And we're talking patches over their eyes, burns, bruises, crutches.

It's the worst of the worst kids brutalized in L.A.

County.

This is where they are.

And they've all been rescued.

They've all been emancipated.

They've all been rescued from the abuse.