Personal Story

It all started when I was about 12 years old. I was going to a day camp at the church down the street and in my group there were a lot of girls and one of them was named Jane*. She was about my age, a little bit shorter than me, and she didn't like me very much. Our youth group leader took pictures of each of us to give to our parents. We were making …

…her stepfather raped her, and he was in a holding center until the court date. Then she confessed that he never did it, and she just got mad at him because he grounded her from doing anything because he caught her with a 23-year-old guy in her bedroom. And that's why she made up the false statement. She is now in a juvenile detention center for assault on her little sister. *names have been changed