Boyd and Lucinda with Mea Fuentez

Mea Fuentez, Author, What Really Happened To Me.

Young Mea suffers abuse at the hands of her mother, who beats her violently for many years. Full of hatred toward her mother, Mea plots to escape; believing this is the only way to survive her mother's horrific abuse. It’s not just her mother who abuses young Mea—for several years Mea has dreams of a man molesting her, though she can never see his face clearly enough in her dreams to know for sure if this truly happened to her.

Until one day; everything becomes clear. Mea is molested and realizes that this is the man in her dreams—he molested her several times when she was younger. When Mea tells her mother, she goes after the molester with a knife, but later returns home and blames the sexual assault on young Mea. Mea runs away from home after being abused by her mother again, only to be kidnapped and held captive in a basement; along with another young girl.