Liliana

But for the most part, my entire family's in Indiana.

And I think because we were so far away, the abuse really just like amped up to...

Like, just literal torture, I think.

So it was in California that they started making, well, they, my stepfather started making us stand in the corner, which is kind of a normal punishment, I guess, normal, as normal as that can be.

But the issue with how he did it was it would be literally hours.

Hours.

I'm standing against the wall.

And it could be over anything.

It could be just because he didn't like the way you looked at him.

I don't know, literally anything.

I cannot stress it enough.

And you would be there for hours.

And he would sit, like he had this chair that would sit and he would just sit there and watch TV or play video games.

And the corner I would stand in was like right there.

So he could just sit there all day and keep an eye on me.

And I'm not allowed to move, step, look, nothing.

I have to hold perfectly still, not allowed to talk, not allowed to cry, not allowed anything.

And I'm just supposed to stand there for hours.

And sometimes I would even fall asleep in the corner and I would kind of like stumble, like, you know, fall asleep, stumble, catch myself.

And he would come over and scream in my face or hit me and add more time as if I was ever coming out of that corner anyway.