foster home
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The state placed her in an “affirming” foster home, where she shares a bedroom with a teenage boy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
"I realised I didn't want the fame or the riches. I wanted to be a mum and a wife. Being a kid from foster home, that was all I actually craved."
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025
Within hours, Sindle seemed to have a mental breakdown, according to accounts relayed in police reports: On the night of Aug. 11, she was wandering around the foster home talking about “guts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
It turns out she had stolen it from the man who ran the foster home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024
“It’s his fifth foster home, which isn’t that bad actually. We had one kid who’d been in twelve.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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