![]() According to Donald Clarke's biography, Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon, she returned there in 1926 after she had been sexually assaulted. She was returned to her mother's care in August of that year. Only 9 years old at the time, Holiday was one of the youngest girls there. She was then sent to the House of Good Shepherd, a facility for troubled African American girls, in January 1925. Holiday started skipping school, and she and her mother went to court over Holiday's truancy.
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