Raised in Los Angeles as one of eight children, Edith survived years of sexual abuse as a child by a family member, and then gang rape as a teenager, for trying to leave a gang into which she had been inducted.  Later, she was enslaved in a trailer bunker by a long-term boyfriend, who sold her to men for sex.  Edith credits her survival to her tremendous resilience and the support of her family and close friends, and is today proud to be the “best mom and the best dad” to her four children.