Martha returned home from taking her fourteen-year-old son, Luke, to evening Bible study at church.
You won\'t be able to put this book down until the last page is read..
Sit in the jury box as the trial unfolds and hear candid testimony of how a master manipulator managed to molest his daughter for over seven years.
Davis through several Southeast Texas counties, to a West Texas mountain top, and into the heart of a little girl.
Travel with Sgt.
Davis chose this investigation to be the subject of his second true crime novel.
For this reason, Sgt.
This case would become one of his most unusual and complex investigations.
Bill Davis, investigated thousands of child abuse and sex crimes cases in his thirty-six year police career with the Beaumont, Texas Police Department.
Victoria\'s police investigator, Sgt.
It is a story that people in our society do not want to hear, nor believe, but one that needs to be told.
This story is much like numerous others, stories of child sexual abuse victims and survivors.
Names and places have been changed to protect the innocent people involved in her story.
What should she do? Where should she go? Victoria\'s story is true.
Martha had two children to protect.
The molestation had been going on as far back as she could remember.
For Victoria, it was a relief that the secret was finally out.
Her daughter had been molested by her own father.
Her worst fear became reality.
Martha\'s world quickly turned upside down that fateful night.
Martha\'s throat had a huge lump in it as her voice quivered, "What\'s going on here, Victoria?" Martha was fighting the realization that Victoria\'s silence was becoming the answer she did not want to hear.
Fear gripped Martha as she saw her little girl staring at the floor, refusing to meet her mother\'s gaze.
She was sitting on the commode seat clad in only a white bra and a pair of cotton panties.
As Martha climbed the last few steps, Victoria came into view. "I\'m almost dressed, I\'m hurrying," was the response she heard from the soft voice she recognized as that of her eleven-year-old daughter.
As they passed one another, Martha noticed the light was on in the bathroom and she mechanically called out, "Next " It was a habit the family adopted as their bathroom door for the time being was a black plastic curtain, and it served as their only privacy while in the bathroom.
He quickly began descending the stairs.
She was halfway up the stairs when her husband, Steve, suddenly appeared from the bathroom wearing only his boxer shorts.
Martha began ascending the steps to the second floor where the bathroom was located.
Her need to use the bathroom was urgent.
Martha entered her home and put the groceries in the foyer.
She stopped by the store and picked up a few groceries and needed to get the perishables into the refrigerator.
Martha returned home from taking her fourteen-year-old son, Luke, to evening Bible study at church
