Read this in one sitting. Horrific story, and almost worse than the pedophile father is how the law and the system left this girl defenseless. Like, whose idea was it to let the guy out after 3 years and let him move nextdoor to the kid he abused?? I suppose it happened because the mother was so insistent that nothing happened, which is its own kind of fucked up.

It was interesting to see that

the mother herself is also a victim

, but instead of recognizing that, she clings to her abuser. Meredith

having to use herself as bait

to get her father arrested again is bleak.