“My daughter I had left with my mother. The man who introduced me to all of this knew where they lived. With Viktor’s threat, I was very afraid. I thought they would hurt my family. I thought that if I escaped, while I was escaping, my daughter would be killed … and my mother, too. If I could do it over, I would have gone to my embassy. But I worried that Viktor could have somehow messed that up for me too. I thought that he might even have friends in the embassy. God, I was stupid.
