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By Angie Pavlovsky | apavlovsky@wutr.tv
Published 06/28 2016
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Another day of testimony in the Word of Life Case, today, a closer look at what happened behind the walls of the Leonard household.
In the eyes of her younger brother, Sarah Ferguson was his tormentor-
” If you had to rank who hit you the most- who hit you the most with the cord… Sarah.” Christopher Leonard said answering D.A. Scott McNamara’s question.
However to her younger sister, she’s the person who saved her life.
“When you say protect, protect you from who? My two brothers Lucas and Christopher. ”
Grace Leonard took the stand today, the young girl described years of sexual abuse at the hands of her brothers, acts she confided in Sarah and Pastor Tiffiane Irwin a year before the fatal counseling session.
She recalls sex abuse in her definition” being touched when you do not wish to be touched” as early as age 5, Lucas would have been 10 at the time.
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