Jodi Arias trial- Admits to killing Travis Alexander in 'self-defense' and was beaten as a child — Transcript

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1. 0:01the the beatings from your mother and
2. 0:03father to they
3. 0:04continue
4. 0:08yes did they increase in
5. 0:13nature um they tended to they began to
6. 0:16increase I'd say all the way through my
7. 0:19teenage
8. 0:21years did they increase you've talked
9. 0:24about frequency and
10. 0:27severity did did the level of the
11. 0:31brutality
12. 0:33increase yes my brother and I
13. 0:37um would we didn't like being hit I
14. 0:40didn't I know I didn't so we would
15. 0:41squirm around a little and so the more
16. 0:42we squirm the harder they would try to
17. 0:45whack us um so just as that progressed
18. 0:50we things would increase you know at one
19. 0:53point um I don't think she meant to but
20. 0:56my mom broke my brother's vein in this
21. 0:59RIS he was putting his hand behind his
22. 1:00back to block um one of her blows and
23. 1:05um you know i' I became a teenager my
24. 1:09dad would get rougher and
25. 1:11rougher okay before we go on to rougher
26. 1:14and
27. 1:17rougher let me ask you this and I'm not
28. 1:20simply talking physically how did they
29. 1:22feel how did you feel when your own
30. 1:24mother was beating
31. 1:26you um when I was younger I remember
32. 1:29remember
33. 1:31feeling I didn't have a word for it then
34. 1:33but I can describe it as betrayed um and
35. 1:37confused and as I got a little bit older
36. 1:40it would just really make me mad
37. 1:43because I just I didn't get why I don't
38. 1:47know I understood that I was being
39. 1:48punished but I would just be mad at her
40. 1:51a lot over that because it hurt because
41. 1:54you still love her yeah I love my mom
42. 1:57even though she was still beating you
43. 1:58you still love her yes it put strain on
44. 2:00our relationship but I still loved her
45. 2:02of course I'm sorry I didn't hear the
46. 2:05last part I still loved her okay