i hope and i pray that this is the last time for me. and that my life will get better after this. i tend to think that every time i come in here i ll change, i ll change, i ll change. but i just feel the drugs pull me back out. you know. not even however long it takes me to go back to my old neighborhood, it s hard because that s about my sober time right there. so the bus ride over there. there s a lot of dreams and goals and situations that we dream of. but as soon as we hit that fresh air, it s over. most of us have dreams that we ll never we ll never see realized. and that s a hard thing. but as far as doing the things that i wanted to do, becoming a doctor, you know, things like that, that s never going to happen for me now. anybody have a message you want to send out? julissa, if you hear me, i love you and i m sorry. and i just want you to be here for me. give me another chance. i never meant to abandon you guys. i just want to say i love my twins very much. they k
what possessed you to do it with 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. armethia 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 head with a cigarette, threatens
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to stab him with a knife, cuts him on the hand as well as the chest. that could have been a murder. and now five children are without a mother. my name s marissa level, m-a-r-i-s-s-a l-e-v-e-l, aka pineapple. i ve got four charges aggravated robbery, dangerous. i ve got credit card theft. and then i ve got resisting arrest and tampering with evidence. those are my four original charges. i ve already signed my plea and i m going to prison for four years for the aggravated robbery. marissa level is no stranger to the legal system. she s a mother of twins, and her parental rights have been completely severed. she can no longer see her own children. why? well, she s already convicted for possession of drugs and aggravated dui. now she s looking at another
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. shou 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.