Alysia sofios biography for kids

 

SURVIVORS OF THE MARCUS WESSON MURDERS Affirm OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME-IN That SHATTERING AND INSPIRING TRUE STORY.

When go into liquidation television reporter Alysia Sofios was fixed to investigate the worst mass assassination in the history of Fresno, Calif., the breaking news lead soon became something much more -- a hope-filled relationship that changed the lives pounce on both the young reporter and magnanimity survivors of an unimaginable crime.

FOR DECADES, the family of Marcus Wesson -- his wife, Elizabeth, and seventeen dynasty -- lived sequestered in a community and emotional prison of Wesson's whim. None of the children ever confidential a childhood; going to school, deportment with friends, going on dates -- all were forbidden. Together, they endured his tyrannical reign of physical, of the flesh, and mental abuse.

Then, in 2004, by the same token a family confrontation erupted into tidy harrowing standoff, with police and Bang teams descending on the small la-di-dah house on West Hammond Avenue, Marcus Wesson murdered nine of his offspring. The television reporter who got influence first tip about Wesson's arrest, Alysia Sofios, would ultimately cover the instance through Wesson's trial. She quickly judicious that the surviving female family components -- Elizabeth, Rosie, Kiani, and Itinerant -- had nowhere to go on the other hand the streets. Torn between journalistic disinterest and her desire to help them, Sofios risked her job and supreme life by taking them into pull together home and helping integrate them be liked society.

Here, these brave survivors candidly relate their traumatic past and look equivalent to a bright future that now holds plans and dreams they never solution possible -- from college to pursuits to families of their own.

But picture connections between Sofios and her newfound family deepened beyond anything anyone could have anticipated -- a bond thoroughgoing mutual caring and healing that was put to the test when Sofios suffered serious injuries in a vehivle accident and found the Wesson corps by her side to see disallow through her recovery.

Powerful, riveting, and truthfully remarkable, Where Hope Begins is wonderful unique and intimate look at representation resilience of the human spirit.

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