"State your name for the record." Assitant District Attorney Casey Novak instructed.
"Emiko Hoshika Kobyashi."
"Can you tell me why your here?"
"My Dad has hit me repeatedly since I was 6."
"And why did he start abusing you?"
"My Mom died when I was 6 when we were moving to America, he hasn't been the same since."
"Explain what he did to you."
"Hit me, slammed me into doors, broke my nose, and when I was 10 he started stabbing me with a knife."
"Ok, tell me about your near death experience."
"I was at the track when Detectives' Tutuola and Munch came to question me some more, about the beginning of the talk my stomach started throbbing in pain."
"Mmmm, hmmm."
"I began screaming and crying, Detective Tutuola told me to lie down, at first I refused, then he gently laid me back and lifted my shirt exposing all my burns, bruises, and cuts."
"Why were the cuts so important?"
"One went so deep that is cut an artery and I was bleeding internally for a week or more, my body couldn't take it anymore."
"I'm lucky to be alive." she added.
"What's going to happen now?"
"I'm going to foster care, and my Dad is being put in prison hopefully forever."
END