KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) - For the first time, Coryion Franklin is sharing the horrifying details of the abuse he endured and how he's finding strength to rebuild his life.

Now 18 years old, the young man is on a mission to inspire others through the pain he once thought would kill him.

"It's like you being in jail, like doing 30 days in the hole, but I'm doing two years in the hole,” he said.

Franklin was only 17 when he was rescued from what doctors called one of the worst cases of child abuse they had ever seen.

It was May of last year when he arrived at the hospital, barely clinging to life.

He was covered in cuts, bruises, and abrasions. His ear was so infected it had nearly swollen shut. He was missing almost all of his teeth. Malnourished and hypothermic, he had fluid in his lun

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