Developing

Page's father is in prison for life. He killed a minister at the church Page went to when she was growing up. He was repeatedly fondling and kissing Page. The minister's inappropriate behavior with Page started when she was 12 years old. She didn't say anything. When she was a junior in high school she was a cheerleader and the minister came to a football game where she was cheerleading. Her father was there too. Her father was an alcoholic. He saw the minister kiss her on the cheek and asked her who he was. Page has always been afraid to tell her father about the minister because she feared he would kill him. The Sunday after the football game Page was at church coming out of the women's restroom and saw the minister. She tried to walk past him but he grabbed her arm and forced her to kiss him. She told him that she had had enough and that she would tell her father if he ever came near her again and that he should be afraid of him. He laughed at her and when she turned to walk away from her he hit her on her behind. Page's parents were divorced and she lived with her mother and stepfather. Page drove to her father's apartment and told him what the minister had been doing. The father showed up drunk at church the next Sunday with the intention to scare the minister. Two men from the church held her father back from the minister. The minister held a smirky grin on his face throughout the interaction which infuriated the father. The father went to his truck parked across the street from the church. He was drinking in the truck. After church was released he saw the minister alone and walked to him to talk to him again. Father was drunk. He pushed the minister up against his car. When minister pushed him back her father shot and killed him. The police showed up quickly and father was arrested. Page was not at church because she was at a cheer camp with her team. Father knew she wouldn't be at church. Page's mother and stepfather were at church and witnessed the earlier incident with father and minister but not the shooting after church. Page carries a lot of guilt about her father being in prison and the death of the minister. Page and her father communicate often via letters.