Tuesday, May 20

It was today, a year ago today, but it was a Sunday not a cloud in the sky. A picture perfect day, a day that no one saw coming and no one that is close to our family will ever forget. It was the day my precious three year old daughter told me that she was being molested by our neighbor, that was the day that I will never forget. I will never forget the innocent look in her eyes as she described to me what had been going on what she thought was ok because it was an adult, a dad, her best friends dad that was doing these things to her. It was so hard for us to wrap our head around what she was telling us but we all knew these were things that no three year old could make up.
It has been a long road for us with the legal system and on June 9th we should be able to get an idea of when this will finally go to trial. There has been so many crazy things that have went on with this from the Assistant DA who changed jobs right in the middle of the case to winter holidays for anyone from the attorneys to the judges, to a lot of mishandling of paperwork and just generally the slowest back woods legal system in NC. You would think that being out here in back woods USA they would have just strung him up and skinned him (would have been ok with me), but instead they set bail and he got out, they told him that he shouldn't stay at his house (which is right next door) so he moved to Florida to live with his dad and now at least until the trial he is free to do whatever he wants without any recourse. No one is watching him, no one is making sure that he is not doing what he did to my daughter to someone else's daughter, and that little girl might not have a big mouth like mine, she may not have the courage or feel safe enough to tell her parents.
Everyday I thank god that I raised my daughter to trust us enough to tell that someone was doing something to her that she wasn't sure was right or wrong. And although some days that big mouth gets her into trouble I know that it is a blessing one that I will always praise her for having and I will always thank god for giving it to her.