
← Take It From Us with Kent Johns24 sep · 42 min
Jason Blyth: The boy who had to advocate for himself at nine years old
Jason Blyth: The boy who had to advocate for himself at nine years old
Jason Blyth was nine years old when he asked his psychiatrist a question no child should have to ask: why was he the one being brought in for treatment, when his mother was the one abusing him? Between the ages of two and fifteen, Jason saw around 20 different clinicians. He begged, repeatedly, to be taken away from a home where his own reports describe genuine fear for his life. Nothing changed. By eleven, he'd stopped asking. Jason Blyth’s story is a Hollywood epic of survival and redemptio...