I'm reading backwards this morning lol. I started from the point I went to bed early last night but it got to be too much.
Let's say Hailey is found alive and well today. Let's say she ran away voluntarily, and has been well taken care of all this time.
I'm still going to make that my business until I'm sure somebody I feel is capable is doing so - another family member or CPS - because Hailey would still be endangered in my opinion.
And we all need to do that, IMO. We can't wait until children are raped and abused and molested and murdered and just wring our hands and prosecute the perps.
We need to look out around us, and stick our noses in, and be pains in the butt, and make those calls, and ask those hard questions, and say those uncomfortable things, because so long as we don't...
we're going to keep sitting here and crying and counting the dead bodies of battered and raped children.
And I can't keep doing that. I just can't. Our children have value to me. They have worth. They are worth looking out for and making an



of myself for and being called a nutcase or a busybody for. If that's the price of keeping a child alive and well, bring it on. I can take it. I'm an adult. I can take care of myself. Children, on the other hand, are defenseless.