know what you’re thinking, but it’s not true. They didn’t hurt her. She did it to herself. I believed them and not because I’m stupid. I saw Janie get so mad once that she chewed the flesh off her own finger. Not her fingernail. The actual flesh of her finger. So no, I never once considered that the Bauers had hurt her. I called an emergency meeting with them the next day because the social worker from the hospital had reported the incident. I—”
