Devastated: A daughter's journey through tribulation

What would you do if a difficult period in your life became compounded by an additional, unbearable ordeal? When everything you’ve been taught as right and wrong is challenged by the person who taught you right from wrong? No one will avoid adversity in life—your values will be tested at some point. Yet you don’t really know your true character until you are confronted by unimaginable events. As a single mother of two young boys, while living with my father, I was faced with the life-changing decision to turn him in to the police for possession of child pornography and molestation of a four-year old neighbor girl. I am a firm believer that all children deserve to be protected, even if it’s from your own family member. The following is the true story of my descent into and back out of the hell that came about from this explosive discovery.