Chapter 5 - The RecordingMy attorney asked whether I had any evidence from the night of the assault.
I remembered the phone.
The call to 911.
But there was more.
My phone had remained connected to the emergency operator.
The call had been recorded.
Every word.
Every threat.
Every denial.
Every time Lorraine told Corey to hit me again.
My attorney listened to the recording.
Then he said:
“This is significant.”
I listened too.
Hearing my own voice begging Corey to stop made me cry.
Then came Lorraine's voice.
“Hit her again.”
Then Corey's voice.
“She needs to learn.”
I closed my eyes.
I had spent years wondering whether I was exaggerating.
I wasn't.
I had spent years wondering whether things were really as bad as they felt.
They were worse.
The recording removed every doubt.
The police added it to the case.
The prosecutor reviewed it.
And suddenly, the story Corey and Lorraine had created began collapsing.
They could no longer say I had attacked first.
They could no longer say I was unstable.
They could no longer say I had imagined the abuse.
There was a recording.
There were medical records.
There were financial documents.
There were witnesses.
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And there was me.
Finally telling the truth.
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