While rushing home, I caught my tiny children abandoned in the woods, injured and unrecognizable. I burst into my parents’ house yelling, “What did you do?!” My sister coldly replied, “You lost your rights.” Before I could react, my dad choked me out. Then, my phone rang with a call from the ICU…

praying the monster wouldn’t find them.

Detective Miller closed his notepad with a soft, final snap. The silence in the room was deafening, save for the rhythmic, electronic beep of Theo’s heart monitor next door. I stared at my beautiful girl, grieving the instantaneous, brutal murder of her childhood innocence.

Before Miller could speak, heavy footsteps continue reading …