Can Grief Break The Cycle of Abuse? | Selysa Love & Monica Padilla | TEDxFolsom

On January 17th, 2007, I was a geeky 13-year-old sitting in the passenger seat of a police car. I was being escorted from my school to the detective's office. I remember being terrified that I'd be placed in the back seat.My mother had many times recounted to me the horrors of the backseat of a police car, the hard plastic seats and the stench of vomit. I was afraid that I had done something wrong for turning in my sexually abusive father. But thankfully, the kind officer let me ride shotgun and gave me a t ...