Raised by a single mother, Kayla never truly learned what a healthy relationship looked like. At just 17, she was dating an older boyfriend who abused her —physically and emotionally.

“I used to be my attacker’s property. He manipulated me to the point where I almost lost everything and everyone in my life,” she says.

But like many teens in love for the first time, she clung to hope when he promised to change.

It was a decision she will regret for the rest of her life.

Despite the trauma, Kayla still remembers every detail of the day her world changed— October 17, 2017 — as if it happened yesterday.

That day, her ex-boyfriend Seth Aaron Fleury, then 21, couldn