Chapter 10 - Going Viral
Despite the legal victories, David's family was rich. Rich people have a way of silencing the press and buying their way out of consequences. I realized that if this stayed quiet, Arthur would just hire a high-priced defense attorney to drag the criminal trial out for years until everyone forgot.
I couldn't let that happen. Mia deserved public justice.
Sitting in Eleanor's office, I created a new Facebook account. I didn't use David's last name. I wrote a post detailing the nightmare. I described the terror of coming home to my abused daughter. I described the punch. And most importantly, I uploaded a blurred, pixelated screenshot of the video showing Beatrice and Chloe conspiring, and a heartbreaking, back-facing photo of Mia's shaved, raw scalp.
I didn't name them. I didn't have to. I just tagged the location as Columbus, Ohio (where I originally lived before David forced us to move to Houston) and let the internet do its thing.
I titled the post: The Monsters In The Mansion: How A Grandfather's Wealth Tried To Cover Up Child Abuse.
I hit post.
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Within two hours, the algorithm picked it up. By the end of the day, it had fifty thousand shares. True crime groups got ahold of it. Internet sleuths began piecing together the clues. By midnight, someone had identified the house from the background of the video screenshot and dropped Arthur's business profile in the comments.
The internet exploded.
