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Content warning: Graphic descriptions of physical and sexual abuse When James McIntyre advocates for queer kids facing abuse and neglect in the state s foster care system, he draws on painful personal experience of his own time in the system and the abuse he endured. McIntyre was only three years old when his parents drug use and neglect forced Illinois child protection authorities to place him and his four siblings in foster care. A couple eventually adopted him and two siblings years later, but that home wasn t the solace he was promised. He tells the
Reader that after he turned seven years old, his adoptive mother would beat and starve him. And her biological son raped him for years. After escaping that home by feigning mental illness, McIntrye says he was shuffled between foster homes until he turned 21 and aged out of the system.
In Illinois, The Fight For LGBTQ+ Rights Continues
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