Lianna Rebolledo lived surrounded by violence for her whole childhood and adolescence. Her mother had left her native country of Mexico to go to California, also fleeing domestic violence, where she would eventually bring her four kids to a better life.
Yet at the age of just 12, Lianna, then living in Mexico City, became a victim of sexual assault. She was kidnapped by two men who took her away to be brutally raped and beat her badly. “It was very violent,” she told Life News. “I honestly thought they were going to kill me.”
