Wages of Sin by Suzy Spencer

Author:Suzy Spencer [Spencer, Suzy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2013-03-28T16:00:00+00:00

Eighteen

The Martins walked into the Del Valle county jail facility. A tiny, poor suburb southeast of Austin, Del Valle was not a community the prosperous family from Round Rock frequented, or expected to frequent.

Separated by a window, Sandra and Robert Martin sat across from their daughter. In her jail clothes, Stephanie was hunched in a small, hard, straight-back chair, her knees curled up to her chest, her arms wrapped around her legs, sobbing and shaking.

To her parents, she looked like she’d been through hell. This was not the life expected for a Christian girl from white, upper-middle-class, well-educated Round Rock.

Sandra and Robert Martin were literally a good sight for Stephanie. Days before, Stephanie had had to remove her contact lenses and since then had been without any sort of seeing aid. At Del Valle, her parents were allowed to give her her eyeglasses.

Robert Martin wondered, What’s happened? How can you be confessing to being raped by this man? You don’t even hardly know him. But Robert Martin wasn’t about to ask any direct questions. There were officers standing nearby. He thought that perhaps a hidden tape recorder was recording their every word.

Mrs. Martin wanted to hold Stephanie, but her daughter was behind that window, and she couldn’t do a darn thing for her child. She reached for the telephone as she watched Stephanie through the glass partition. “We love you. We’re here for you. Your lawyer will be here for you. We’ll get through this.”

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