Elizabeth Muñoz, 24, lived in 20 foster homes as a kid, a youth and a young adult.
“I never really knew what it was like to be a child or to experience a true childhood,” Muñoz, originally from Inglewood, told CALÓ News.
She landed in the foster care system at 11 years old after she testified against her abusive father. “I reported my father at the age of 11 for sexually assaulting me and sodomizing me,” she said. “Even though a lot of my family members turned a blind eye or a blind ear to the abuse, I knew, even at that time, that it was not OK. I told on my father and I made a lot of my family members not want anything to do with me.”…