started singing like cyndi lauper, madonna, like i usually do. it was all really dumb. and she accused me it s all over a guy. she accused me of telling her i was going to kill her with a hammer. i said you re crazy. i wasn t raised like that. she told the cops. the cops said you re high anyway, you need to go in. i didn t know they d put me down for aggravated assault. that was july arrest. upon that that s when i lost custody of my kids. here they don t transport you to the cps meetings. rosa leon, a mother of two, has a third baby on the way. she described her battle with drugs to me, but you ve got to remember, she threatened to kill a woman while wielding a hammer screaming i m going to kill you, you f-ing chicana. and now she s facing ag assault charges. that s just a few of the very long list of crimes on her rap sheet. yes, she s a mother of two with a third child on the way.
it is. it is very difficult. it was the toughest thing for myself. i m used to it. why? my whole family s been incarcerated since i was a kid do any of your children come to see you? no, i have five children. i have twins, too. god lord in heaven. you have five children. yeah, my kids are grown and i have the 5-year-old baby. my children are grown. who s got the baby? and my baby, the 5-year-old is with my 20-year-old that i came here to visit in arizona. so she has my 5-year-old. how do you stand being away from your children? that s hard. i m so used to the one that s been abandoned in my life. it is by the grace of you might say god. this time around i abandoned. i m the one who s just being abandoned and i abandoned my family this time so i feel really horrible. for me, it s very difficult. due to my circumstances, i don t have my mother s phone number. i don t have contact with my
a cigarette? what did he do to get the burn? he just he aggravated me and provoked me so much what did he do? he went in there and he got liquor. and i hadn t been drinking for a while. i no longer wanted to have the notion to want to drink anymore. i wanted to get my life together and get in church and he just is an alcoholic. he just came with that drug abuse and that alcohol abuse and brought it back here. what are you doing with him? i thought that he was willing to change his life also, as i was. so i allowed him to come here after me. armithea burks, a mother of five. and now after a criminal history with three separate cocaine charges, possession of stolen property, obstruction of law enforcement, even prostitution, she s looking at hard time. hard jail time for aggravated assault. after she gets into a fight with her boyfriend at the walmart and burns him in the back of the
the neighborhood at the time that we moved it was not that great. so they came in and found it, so they got me for possessing a gun by a prohibited person. she is about to start serving a nine-year sentence. she pled guilty to second degree burglary. she entered a home, stole about $1,000 worth of belongings that she planned to sell, but a phoenix, arizona police chopper spotted her overhead. she fled the scene, hiding in the laundry room of a nearby apartment complex where she was arrested. she pled guilty to giving a false report to law enforcement, dangerous drug violations and marijuana. i m armithea burks. a-r-m-i-t-h-e-a burks. b-u-r-k-s. i was sentenced about a month ago and i ll be getting out here shortly. what are you in for? an accident. an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon that i did not do. whoa, whoa. what possessed you to do it with
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