Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right.

I guess to their wide, innocent eyes it all seemed like normal family life because they had never known any different. In fact, I was the only one who had lived with anyone else, the only one that realized that life didn't have to be this terrifying and this painful all the time

When you're little you believe whatever your mother tells you, so I assumed it must be true, that I must be inferior to the others in some way.

She is so young to be gone. You never think you're going to outlive your child. It's sad. It's hard for all of us. It's hard for this whole community.

There was no reasonable basis to suspect that this child was abused or neglected.