Morgan Absher

And after their second son was born in 2015, Jermaine at this point is starting to realize that she didn't want her boys to grow up watching their father hurt her.

She wanted this cycle of abuse to end with her.

And, you know, we kind of hear that from people that have been in these shoes, like, I wanted it to just stop with me.

So she started speaking up when the abuse happened.

Connie Walker spoke to a tribal police officer on the Flathead Reservation who said he was called out to Jermaine's house for domestic violence at least three times.

Again, hands are so tied.

And that whole truth is our fifth clue.

A story Jermaine told in her own words about how serious the abuse had gotten.

You won't see it on Jermaine's public profile, but Connie was actually able to go and view Jermaine's private Facebook posts, like posts that had been archived or just not released publicly.

And so on May 15th, 2017, Jermaine posts about the reality of her relationship.

In it, she says that Michael has been using their kids to blackmail her into staying with him.

He says if she leaves, he'll make sure she can't see them anymore.

Then, Jermaine describes an incident where she turned down a goodbye kiss when Michael was leaving for work.

So, he threw her up against a pull-up bar and strangled her.

She didn't report the incident to law enforcement, and later that same month, she left the relationship for good.

Yeah.

We're going to give custody of two young, vulnerable children to a known abuser.

To a maniac.

Okay.

I'm so bad at math, but like that is not adding up.