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That up because they didn t like their school and they wanted to not go to school there anymore. i think that yaser called the phone, my mom s house and that the kids, one of the girls answered it, and i think that he convinced them to say that it didn t happen. and because after that, like not even an hour later, they said, oh, mom, it didn t happen. we were just saying it happened, because we didn t want to go back to covington, and i m, like, are you sure it didn t happen? are you just telling me that? and they said no, it didn t happen. it didn t happen. i think yaser told tissie, nothing is going to happen again, i m going to be good, i m going to work. i just want my family to be ....
i d have a daughter, my whole life i d spend trying to protect her. i can t even conceive that the first sexual encounter your daughter has is with the man who s supposed to be her loving protector, her savior. when amina told me, i left the same day, and we moved in, and we stayed at my mom s. on december 17, 1998, yaser was indicted for sexual penetration of the girls. he threatened to kill patricia and to take the girls and just disappear. the sheriff s department was going forward with this complaint when amina and sarah recanted, saying, they just made ....
Could you imagine waking up to that every day? hi. hi. me, amina, sarah, we had very open relationship. and i knew that she had a boyfriend. when i married amina, actually, she had given up on her life. she had given up on her life because of all the threats, all the violence that was going on in her house. one of the things amina told me is i gave her hope. i gave her a reason to live. i gave her love. yaser, he knew that they were seeing boys, that they were talking to boys, but not how serious it was, that they both had boyfriends. around november, the threats from yaser started getting more serious. ....
Okay, bye. where are you going? i m going to the bus. okay, take amina with you. wait, wait. bye, daddy! bye amina! bye, dad. bye. okay. he always carried his camera everywhere. yaser was videoing them to see who they was talking to and to make surthey get on the bus. when they were at school, he would be taping them to see what they were doing. all the way till they got to the house he was videoing them. ....
They made the decision that they wanted to come back to louisville. patricia and sarah s plan was they were going to visit patricia s mom s grave. there was no plan to visit yaser. to be honest, i don t know why they, you know, why they come back. tissie wasn t answering the phone. it was going like straight to a voice mail. i couldn t get anybody to answer the phone. and then amina called me. she was very upset, very, like kind of yelling at me almost. and aunt connie, did you know my mom went back to my dad and just, you know, kind of, in her voice, it was a little frantic, and i said i didn t know. she said well, i m never going back there. i d rather die first than to ever go back there. i was feeling upset and confused and hopeless. i mean, i didn t know what to do. ....