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Did. she wasn t ashamed of it. she just thought everybody should know what he was like, what he did to her. she was so worried that he may do it to another child. katie was going to counseling. she went there for quite a while. she really dent seem like it was bothering her. you know, i just think she was covering it up pretty well. when i went out to court, i walked into the courtroom, the courtroom is empty. i thought, well, this is strange. court can t be over. i heard voices coming from back over in like in the corner of the courtroom, and i said i m here for the trial. he said there s not going to be a trial. mr. sawhill failed to appear. ....
Kind of betrayal. i don t i can t think of any other instance in my life where i felt that betrayed. you know, somebody that i had known and trusted for so long to do something like that to my daughter. i mean, couldn t he realize how he was hurting her, her trust and, you know, faith in him as a person? it was just devastating. investigators ran the criminal history for mr. sawhill and found that he was a registered sex offender. the sexual abuse conviction in st. louis county involved a 13-year-old girl. he was in prison after he met kenny joe, and he kept telling us it was for marijuana charges, and we knew that that s what he did for a living. ....
Which i knew immediately mr. sawhill didn t appear and has no intention of ever appearing. at that point in time investigators would go to any location that they were aware of that mr. sawhill might be located. they could not find bruce sawhill or his wife kenny joe sawhill. they were both missing. they cut all ties with their family. essentially they abandoned all aspects of their life, their former life, and they ve created a new one. for kenny joe to put up with it, seeing these little vulnerable, beautiful people like katie vie late and destroyed, that she could be the enabler, that children weren t more important to her than staying with her dirt bag husband, to keep hem out there, to keep him on the road, doing ....