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SAN DIEGO — Nonprofit Just in Time for Foster Youth says nearly 60% of the current and former foster children they surveyed faced some form of identity theft.Kurita entered the foster care system at age 15 after her biological mother abandoned her at a hospital.
"There was eight credit cards and three loans. Two were business loans, one was a personal loan," Kurita said."I started looking into it. Next thing you know, it's like, 'Oh, you have a business loan that's been open for 17 years.' I was like, how do you make a one-year-old the CEO of a business?""It was endless phone calls, endless letters, endless applications," said Kurita."Appeals if I got denied.
"Any day could be anybody else's last day, any loved one," said Kurita."So now I live every day for the people that are most important to me."
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