Stranger Danger

By: Charity Chandler-Cole

Narrated by: Charity Chandler-Cole

Stranger Danger takes you on a riveting ride of the Los Angeles juvenile justice and foster care systems through the eyes and experiences of sixteen-year-old, Charity. Charity is a bright and studious girl who wants nothing more than to escape into the fantasy world of her favorite novels. However, she finds herself entangled in a reality that punishes poverty and exploits innocence.

After escaping the dangerous life of gangs and drugs that proved not as friendly and familial as she had hoped, Charity resorts to stealing food and clothing to address the deep poverty that she and her family were experiencing. After being caught stealing a pack of underwear, Charity finds herself handcuffed, sentenced, and spending the remaining years of her childhood in and out of juvenile hall and foster care. While in foster care, Charity is exploited by the very people in charge of protecting her and who she trusted was providing her a way out of poverty.

In this sweeping narrative, Charity weaves her horrific story of experiencing systems benevolently disguised as protection with the harsh realities at the intersection of poverty, systemic injustice, exploitation, and judicial punishment.

©2023 Charity Chandler Cole (P)2024 Charity Chandler Cole

Powerful personal journey and story

Charity tells a cautionary tale that will leave you speechless and ready to change the whole system. Powerful storytelling of a girl caught in the grips of an ugly system her journey will break your heart and give you hope at the same time.

Resilience

Charity showed amazing resilience, time after time situation after situation she still landed on her feet better than she was before rather, she realized it or not! Thank you Charity for sharing your story with the world and giving girls hope, women hope, families hope! I look forward to part 2 to see what charity did with all that strength when she was released!