Not cruelty.

Not cover-up.

Fourteen separate reasonable responses by four different adults over four years, none of whom knew about the other thirteen.

Part Ten: What I Got Wrong

I believed them.

That is my whole failure and it took me eleven months of sitting with it to be able to write it in three words rather than in four paragraphs of context.

Every single time I was told it was being handled, I believed it was being handled, and I went and made dinner.