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Brutally raped and stabbed at 7, aged out of a group home, parenting as a foster mom, and earned an Emmy - Mandy Lemond - S6 E65
Author Mandy Lemond is a former foster child turned Emmy Award-winning TV Producer.
At just 7 years old Lemond‘s father raped her and left her for dead, that same night, he murdered little Mandy's mother. Lemond's father's crime left the Kentucky native a true orphan.
Mandy aged out of foster care after spending more than 11 years in a group home. She recalls, “I went to college with $5 to my name." With the same tenacity Lemond used to overcome her childhood trauma, she graduated on time from Eastern Kentucky University and was immediately hired by the local NBC affiliate as a TV Reporter…
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