CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – Michelle Dewitt, the mother of the man charged with killing Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte light rail, is a survivor.
For years, she survived in silence. She said she was molested between the ages of 3 and 14 years old, and raped at age 14.
“Growing up at this time … they say, ‘What’s in the house stays in the house.’ At that time, it was, ‘be quiet, listen to adults, do what they tell you to do.’ And I was brought up that way,” Dewitt said…