Still Standing

Cashmier Bradly was an only child, raised by a single mother. Her mother kept her involved in beauty pageants all across the city of Las Vegas. With her drug-addicted father dropping in and out of her life, things were about to change once her mother, Janette, met her new boyfriend, Ice. Ice's hustle and street life became a stressful burden on Janette, causing her to take her anger and furstration out on the only person she loved the most, her own daughter. As Cashmier grew older, her abusive relationship with her mother caused the teen to become rebellious, looking for love in all the wrong places. By the age of fourteen she was pregnant and beaten badly by her own mother, then forced to abort her unborn child. By the time she graduated high school, she had been keeping a secret from her mother that would cause a reoccurring abusive event. She was pregnant again, only this time, she would flee the city of Las Vegas and attend college in the state of Arizona, keeping her now eight-year-old son, Jemar Demone Matthews Jr.