I am so sorry Tehgan, that so many people who had the power to act in another way and protect you, didn't.
I won't throw stones at mom (not that anyone here has as yet, the criticisms I've read have not been spiteful) but I too have to wonder what on earth so many mothers are thinking when they expose their defenseless little ones to men who are mentally ill, have sexual assaults in their pasts, keep weapons close at hand, and overall would never, in a million years, pass the sniff test for us here? Why is there an epidemic of mothers exercising zero judgment in this way?
who failed to protect this defenseless girl? Mom, Family members (mom does not live in a bubble, where did her family members think Tehgan was while mom was gone?), perp, perp's grandparents (were they unaware their mentally ill grandson had this child out in that barn for ten days torturing her and if so, how?
So very sad, and once again, completely preventable! I am disheartened beyond belief that this scene continues to play out across our great nation, day after day, week after week. Sickens me.