Saruti

So it seems that in this area, everyone knew about Katie Beers, the local Cinderella to her wicked godparents.

But nobody seemed concerned enough to actually do much about it.

As journalist Carolyn Gussoff later put it, for a dog, someone would have called the pound.

For Katie, no one knew what to do.

It was as if an entire community had witnessed a hit and run, turned its collective head and then just kept driving.

It is definitely that case.

There is so much neglect going on that precipitates what happens to Katie later.

It also precipitates how she's able to handle it.

But there's definitely, just like an open secret, staggering amount of neglect.

And

Maybe a different time, but would things really be different now?

No.

I don't know.

No, people don't like to get involved.

And it reminds me of that case here from, like, a couple of years ago of Sara Sharif, that little girl who got beaten to death by her father and her stepmother.

People now, after she died, neighbours were like, oh, yeah, we were always really concerned.

We heard really weird noises.

She always looked really this, that and the other and...

Yeah, you're like, why didn't you say anything?

But I don't know.