"When I was 4 years old, I was molested, when I was 6, I was sexually abused (rape) from then on till I was 17," the 19-year-old put down. And she thought about her older brother, Johnny, and his refusal when she'd asked him to go to therapy the day before. Mary fingered her long brown hair as she thought of her sister. The little girl had put the doll's bonnet on backward. Nothing except a stuffed doll that had belonged to her 6-year-old sister. There were no signs of the Amish upbringing she had left behind-no plain wood furniture or chamber pot. When she wrote the letter that she hoped would protect her sister, Mary Byler was lying on a twin bed, surrounded by rainbow-colored walls and a sky-blue ceiling decorated with bright white clouds. Reprinted with permission from Legal Affairs.
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