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“Katie didn’t know the full story. She knew only what DeAnne had told her growing up: Ray had touched her “inappropriately.” Katie didn’t remember any of the abuse, but DeAnne explained that Katie had most likely buried the terrible things her father had done to her so deeply that she couldn’t access any recollections of them.
“That never felt right to Katie, though. She had long nursed a suspicion that the memories weren’t there because they didn’t exist, and her father had been innocent all along. If that was the case, it meant she and her older brother, Matt, had played a role in putting their father in prison.”
Read the full article. by Maurice Chammah in collaboration with Esquire, at The Marshall Project.
