00:00I have been beaten, starved, sleep-deprived, have been put out on my body.
00:07I tried to tell my mother.
00:09She couldn't really do anything about it because she tried.
00:11I wasn't allowed to go into his bathroom.
00:13I had to use the outhouse.
00:14There was this one time that he finally let me use the bathroom because I had an emergency.
00:18And I went in, and I went to the bathroom, and there was a toilet.
00:20And I went down to talk to Randy's wife.
00:23And I mentioned offhandedly, hey, I almost thought I started my period, but it turned out it was Russ.
00:28And then she started questioning me, well, why are you bleeding?
00:30And I told her.
00:30And she picked up the phone, called the cops, and took me down to the station herself.
00:34I remember walking into the station.
00:35I was terrified.
00:36After the examination, the doctor found severe, like, evidence of...
00:41Tim came into the doctor's office, screaming, calling me on...
00:45My dad, Tim, decided that he was going to try to pretend to cry.
00:49I was still technically in his custody.
00:51They granted me a restraining order against Tim.
00:53Tim did not obey this.
00:54I got a dog.
00:55We would tie him to the front steps of our house.
00:58Tim showed up, gets out of the car.
01:00As always.
01:01My dog didn't bark.
01:02Didn't growl.
01:03Just comes up.
01:04Comes up around and latches onto his...
01:06Tim screamed.
01:07And he did not let go of him until he got to his car, opened the door.
01:11And he got in the car, and he left.
01:13And that's the last time I saw him.
01:14I was 10 when we moved.
01:16We did not tell him where we moved.
01:17And we moved to Freeport.
01:18I found out that he died when I was about 15, and I threw a party.
01:22When it came time to persecute him, to press charges, they would not allow me to testify in a safe
01:28way.
