Liliana

I was glad that they told me.

I wish that I knew back then to tell like an adult, but I just thought what he's doing is normal.

And I'm the weirdo for feeling uncomfortable about it because that's how much I didn't trust myself and my own emotions.

So I was always just like, you know, better me than them, even if it makes me uncomfortable.

And I have no one to tell because according to him, this is normal.

Yeah, literally that too.

Like I didn't have, I didn't have a trustworthy adult in my life.

He started isolating us from the family.

So like we were going to the church and I have some great aunts that we would stay with like pretty much every weekend.

You know, I would be with my grandma or with one of my aunts and stuff like that.

But then it became, we're not allowed to see these people.

not allowed to go to church, not allowed to really do anything except for, like, you know, the big stuff, like Christmas or Thanksgiving and stuff like that.

While I was away at school, and T had also started school at this point, so we were both at school, and M was still, yeah, too young.

She was already potty trained at this point and stuff, but I came home from school, and I saw this really weird drawing, like...

I couldn't tell what it was.

It kind of looked like a carrot.

And I was like, what is this?

I asked my mom, what is that?

She told me that Em had told her that Austin had exposed himself to her

And she was like, in order to get her to prove it, she wanted her to draw it.