written by John Lash | 06/14/2013

Have you heard Sara’s story? She was raised by an abusive, drug addicted mother. Her father was almost entirely absent from their lives. Sara, an 11-year-old middle school student in Riverside, Calif., met a man in his thirties who began to take a fatherly interest in her. He would take her and her friends skating, buy her gifts, offer her advice, and over a few years become a father figure. Things were looking up. Then, when she was 13, he raped her. The ma...

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