It just seems (to me, anyway) that some people here didn't really read Ms. Addams' full statement, or at least didn't read it carefully from standpoint of "why would she want to lie?" (as has already been pointed out by others, here).
She actually explains, pretty fully and intelligently, why she was quiet for all these years, and she explains her motivation for finally telling her story. But this thread went off the rails in the other thread seemingly without consideration of
the text from her essay.
This is just so sad, to me.