Escaping Abuse: Reuniting with My Rescuer (Part 2)
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
4.3 • 13.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part 2: Dr. Phil sits down with Roshin and Tyler, whose extraordinary true story has captivated millions online. At just 13 years old, Roshin fled an abusive home to survive. Unbeknownst to her, a police officer named Tyler was part of the search team that night. Fifteen years later, they reconnected while working together at the sheriff's department, fell in love, and got engaged. In this powerful episode, they reveal the harrowing details of Roshin's escape, her struggles in foster care, and the incredible twist of fate that brought them together, proving that hope and healing are possible even after the darkest chapters.
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| 0:00.0 | My wife, Robin and I have spent a lot of time, effort and energy dealing with foster children |
| 0:17.0 | and working in the foster system. |
| 0:21.6 | And I have said many times that in my opinion, |
| 0:27.6 | the foster care system is broken. |
| 0:31.6 | It's just absolutely a broken system. |
| 0:35.6 | We have hundreds of thousands of foster children. |
| 0:38.3 | We don't even know how many. |
| 0:41.3 | And children just go missing in the foster system all the time, |
| 0:47.3 | and we don't know where they are or what's happened to them. |
| 0:52.3 | Rochene, I'll ask you, and from personal experience, |
| 0:56.0 | and Tyler, from having to deal with it |
| 0:59.0 | from a law enforcement standpoint, |
| 1:01.0 | would you all agree that it's a broken system? |
| 1:04.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:06.0 | And Rochene, you say absolutely, |
| 1:10.0 | why do you say that with such conviction? |
| 1:14.0 | Just because I've been through it and the homes that I've been in and the experience I've had, it wasn't, it was very complicated. |
| 1:22.2 | You know, I went through trauma, you know, and chaos through the foster care system. |
| 1:29.2 | So I couldn't agree more. |
| 1:31.8 | And Tyler, you've been at this long enough. |
| 1:34.1 | You guys know from law enforcement standpoint that putting a child in foster care, |
| 1:39.1 | that's not your first choice, right? |
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