“I know I made a big mistake and every day I am sorry. I really can’t explain and there is no excuse,” she said, tears streaming down her face.
The ‘big mistake’ this mother made was have the rape charge against the man who violated her daughter discontinued and return to the union. Months later it was discovered that the man sexually abused the child again. She has now left the union and is living in protective custody, fighting to save the only home her three children know.
As she spoke to me she wept; her pain was evident, and she also seemed ashamed.
