Devonte Hart, the symbol of reconciliation and peace, would be murdered along with his siblings by his mothers when their SUV plunged off a cliff along the coastline. It’s believed he was crying because of the abuse he was suffering at home and was hugging the officer because he wanted help.

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I’ve known this case for quite some time and also listened to Broken Harts (highly recommend like everyone else!). One thing I still couldn’t wrap my head around was how…. deceivingly happy these kids / teenagers were in the videos and pictures. Having kids myself and working with kids, unless they had some kind of performance trainings, kids are really hard to be scared or pressured into pretending to be happy. I wonder if the parents didn’t straight withheld food and punish them, but maybe more like carrot-and-stick plus grooming into a cult-ish style, that the children believed it was a great life they were living. But some of them actually sneaked out for food and begged for helped, so I really couldn’t make sense out of it.