LOS ANGELES — Robert was looking for love. What he found was a gang.
“I joined a gang for a family,” he told the PBS show Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. “I never had one when I was growing up. I joined the gang for a family. That’s it.”
Living with his new “family” led him to eight years in prison — for robbery and car-jacking.
He ended up being part of Homeboy
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