The Survival Story of Kayleigh Ballantyne (Massachusetts)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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SOUTH BOSTON, 2013: On the night of July 23, 2013, 21-year old Mainer Kayleigh Ballantyne was randomly attacked as she walked into her apartment in Southie. As her attacker made clear his plans, Kayleigh told herself she was going to survive. A survivor of a random act of violence, Kayleigh is sharing her journey through recovery, how she’s using her trauma for advocacy, and why her story is forever connected to the story of another woman, Amy Lord, who lost her life by the hands of the same attacker.

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0:00.0	You're not going to die.
0:09.2	You're not going to die.
0:10.5	And I remember saying that to myself, like in my head head like you're going to do what you can to fight for your life is right now is not the time that life is over.
0:20.0	It was the summer before her senior year at Bryant University and 21-year-old
0:26.1	Maynor Cayley Ballantine was getting a taste of city life and living on her own
0:30.7	terms. Working at night, an internship during the day, and living with
0:35.8	her best friends in Boston before her demanding Division I field hockey schedule started
0:41.4	back up for her final season.
0:44.0	On the night of July 23rd, 2013,
0:48.0	Cayley's routine walk home from the T to her apartment
0:52.0	would change the course of her life forever and
0:55.6	forever connect her to the story of another woman. This is the story of
1:01.5	Cayley Balantine told by Kaye Balantine.
1:07.0	I grew up in southern Maine, a town called Gorham. I was fortunate to have a really good childhood and two parents who really cared about my brothers, my two older brothers and I, and instilled a lot of good values in us.
1:25.7	Kaylee and I have relatives in common, and we've met once or twice at family get-togethers and things like that.
1:34.5	She's kind, funny, beautiful, and tough.
1:39.2	Growing up as a little sister of two older brothers played a big part in that. I wanted to be with them all the time.
1:46.4	I know that their presence in my life caused me to not really back down and kind of have this chip on my shoulder.
1:59.6	They taught me to never let someone push me around. With that being said I wouldn't be where I am if it wasn't for my older
2:08.8	brothers. So I think in the grand scheme of things with experiences I've just kind of taken them as they come but I haven't really been
2:18.5	haven't really been afraid of what that is and I have them to thank for that. And my mom and my dad, they were, my mom is kind of a bull in a China shop to like get things done with whatever it takes. So that's kind of how I was brought up and what was instilled in me from a
2:35.3	wicked young age yeah wicked young age yeah the main way the main way yeah
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