Revealing Her Secret
When a producer asked Kathy, 61, if she knew about the solitary confinement, she said no and looked truly shocked. “I couldn’t tell you guys because every time I tried I got punished by them or they would say, ‘We’re just going to tell your parents you’re a liar, and they’re not going to believe you,’” she later tells her mom, who started to cry. “Basically they just told me that so many different times that I was afraid to even say anything or bring it up.”
In addition to telling her mom, she shows her a photo of herself participating in a campaign called #BreakingCodeSilence to speak out against the school. She reached out to other survivors — her former roommate and classmates — who also had been traumatized and were ready to share their stories.
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