Good read about a brave 10 year old girl.

Quote:ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The toy monkey was scruffy and threadbare in spots, cuddled and clutched and squeezed as if the stuffed animal were the little girl’s lifeline.

In many ways, it was that.

She held on to the monkey when things got bad, when she hurt. She took it with her when she was interviewed by law enforcement and lawyers, its gangly arms wrapped around her neck. When their questions revived the memories of the trauma she had endured for nearly half her 10 years, she gripped the monkey tighter, buried her tear-stained face in its matted brown fur.

But she was brave. And she told them what had happened to her at the hands of a relative’s boyfriend. And because of what she said, because those who heard her believed her, that man is going to prison.

She called him Dad.

But we shall call him monster.

https://www.abqjournal.com/1178073/girl-...rison.html

Sad that it has to come to this, but truly glad that she stepped up and answered the call when it came. Must be a truly remarkable girl.