“Would you believe me?”

Everything after that came because adults finally stopped requiring her to prove pain before they listened.

And even then, she did not need to be perfectly consistent in every tiny detail to deserve protection.

Children remember differently.

Trauma complicates memory.

Professional interviewers know that.

The goal was not to turn Sophia into a miniature witness machine.

That matters because society sometimes praises children only after their accounts survive adult standards of performance.