His older brother joined an Asian gang and Vanna soon followed. When the family moved to California in 1992, Vanna took his anger to the streets of Fresno. And I didn’t know where this anger came from I didn’t know how to vent it.” “As I got older I started looking for trouble. “If we did something wrong it would usually lead to physical and verbal abuse,” Vanna said. Inside the home, he was a victim of domestic violence. We were told by our neighbors and our classmates, in colorful language, to go home, go back to our country, we’re not wanted here. “We didn’t understand the language,” Vanna said. Growing up, Vanna found America was less a place of refuge and more a place of fear. CBN.comThe “In” family, with their 6 children, moved to Houston, TX in 1978 as Cambodian refugees from the Vietnam War.
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