Recently, we put out the call to you, our listeners, seeking conversations around youth crime.

Today's guest answered that call.

She's the foster mother of a young woman who's been both offender and victim.

We won't be naming our guest or her daughter for various legal and personal reasons.

This is Australian True Crime.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created. and personal reasons. This is Australian true crime.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created,

the Wurundri Woi Warang people of the Koolan Nation.

And a warning.

This episode of the podcast contains graphic descriptions of violence.

You became a foster mother when we're going to refer to her as your daughter, but we don't want to name her.

So your daughter was five years old.

Is that what you said when she came to you?

She was five years old.

She's now 20, so 15 years.

And the day that two pieces of paper were presented to me with her information on

them, I took a big deep breath and I said, so you're asking me to promise to love this child

for the rest of my life? And they said, yeah, and I took a big deep breath and I said,

okay, I'm in. You contacted us because we put a call out saying, look, that we really wanted to

continue the conversation around youth crime, youth offending.

And we said, you know, if you've got any involvement in this, if you were a perpetrator,

offender or whatever, please contact us.

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