Maddy

So this was my life with them because they had to take care of me.

And I think because she's...

They honed in on how dangerous my dad was, which I completely understand.

But he was also locked up.

And they just felt like he was always going to come and, like, kidnap me or have a family member come get me.

So I think they had a lot of pressure on themselves with taking care of me.

And I think it made them resent me a lot more than, like, actually just see me as their little sister.

And they just saw who my father was to them.

So it was hard.

And they always... My brother would fight with all of us.

He would do a lot of scary things.

When they would fight and yell, he'd put knives to his wrist.

He would talk about wanting to kill himself all the time.

He was doing all these drugs.

But nobody was putting a stop to it.

And we couldn't really do it because my mom didn't have the means to do so.

So...

For the longest, I just like shut down and just dealt with it.

I really did.

I was just like, this is how it's going to be.