My Daughter Was Badly Hurt Protecting a Stranger — the Powerful Families Behind It Assumed Their Names Made Them Untouchable

She is going to heal, and she is going to grow up, and she is going to watch what her father did in response to the worst night of her life.

And I refuse — I refuse — to teach her that the answer to violence is more violence in the dark.

I am going to teach her that there is a right way, and that the right way is harder, and that we do it anyway.

We are not going to kill these boys.

We are going to do something they will find far worse.

We are going to make them face the law, in the daylight, with their names meaning nothing, and we are going to make it stick.”