Removed from their home in the affluent Beverly Hills community on Christmas Eve and put into the foster care system at just 11 years old. The video shows their struggles before aging out of the foster care system.

“Straight Outta Beverly Hills” is about the Lucci quadruplets growing up in foster care after they were removed from their home in Beverly Hills on Christmas Eve. Surviving every imaginable hardship the video is a glimpse into the quadruplet’s heart wrenching story of first over coming neglect and abuse and then ending up in the foster care system at age 11. The video has garnered over a hundred thousand views in less than a month and has generated an out pour of love, support and thousands of comments online from viewers all over the world. The Lucci sisters made the video to help inspire other foster kids to stay in school, graduate and go onto college.

Below is a link to the Straight Outta Beverly Hills video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8WkkEn5kDE&list=UUpxj7bfnrFvwzBhKWHKkk_w&index=2

Little did the sisters know that the “Straight Outta Beverly Hills” video would also trigger a barrage of hate mail and threats from their biological father, the same man who was declared by the State of California to be unfit to raise them because of his severe neglect and abuse of the girls. Their father even encouraged their mother to make a tasteless homemade YouTube video in which she states she is mentally ill because of the quadruplets. The Lucci’s parents video threatens to sue everyone they think is involved in the “Straight Outta Beverly Hills” video including the young college film maker Jade Collins-Parnell, her mother and even James Swanwick a TV host, and former Sports Center anchor on ESPN who doesn’t know any of the Lucci’s and had nothing to do with “Straight Outta Beverly Hills” video. This just further illustrates how unstable these parents are and that the state made the right choice when these girls were removed from their parent’s home.

A growing problem in the foster care system, a foster parent, may be at risk from birth parents or biological family members. False accusations of abuse, neglect, or other forms of maltreatment may be reported against you out of the resentment by the family, as the child is living with you instead of a biological parent or family member. Along with this, false allegations might also be made against you out of jealousy, or simply in an attempt to justify the birth parent’s own present, or even past, behavior. The Lucci Quadruplets biological father has a well-documented past of threatening several of the foster homes which caused the girls to be moved several times in the foster care system. In the “Straight Outta Beverly Hills” video the girls talk about how their father has been tracking them down and bullying them for the last 12 years. The Lucci quadruplet’s parents have falsely accused a number of foster parents, of dealing heroin, being gay and even child molestation, to frighten the foster parents into giving up the girls.

Many organizations for victim’s rights have lashed out at the Lucci quads biological parents for using the internet to blame one of the girls for being sexually abused at 11 years old and defending the abuser actions as if she deserved it even though the abuser is a registered sex offender who was prosecuted and served six years in jail. The Lucci parents are also big on gay bashing and have spread gay rumors all over the internet about the girls, foster parents and even a television producer working on a TV movie about the quadruplet’s life. This gay-bashing encouraged one internet poster to comment “An appalling act of gay shaming disguised as a story -- thought we were way past this crap”.
In spite of the vicious backlash and threats from their biological parents the Lucci Quadruplets are determined to share their journey to inspire others in the foster system and help reform the foster care system.

This May during National Foster Care Awareness Month the Lucci Quadruplets will be launching their non-profit foundation called “A Case of Love”. The Lucci Quadruplets are working to ban trash bags in the foster system and replace them with duffel bags. Their mission is to provide children entering foster care with a duffel bag containing brand new belongings to help ease their transition into foster care. Foster children move an average of seven times before the age of 18. When a social worker arrives to pick up a foster child to move them to a new home; they bring a black, plastic garbage bag for the child to put his or her possessions in. The Lucci sisters are also working to help protect the privacy of foster parents and help stop retaliation and unwanted visits from biological parents of foster kids which is a growing concern in Foster Care System.
For more information on the Lucci Quadruplets visit their Facebook Fan Page at: https://www.facebook.com/thelucciquads

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Submitted by: Jamie White
New York, USA
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