Before it became safe to expose generation’s atrocities, she happened upon what some of the adults were doing with the younger children.
Trying to help her peers got her outcast from community circles where they called her a liar and “wicked.”
The kids were warned she was pariah, and once-friends called her names at her passing.
Her grandparents fought being ostracized while her grandfather negotiated to keep his job and position.
She knew she had been right to protect the other young ones, but paid dearly for illumination.
She was pressured to say publicly she had made a mistake – yet instead accepted isolation as punishment.
