MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, Mich. — As the Muskegon County community continues to try and understand what led to an 11-year-old girl's death, her adoptive mother accused of sitting on her until she stopped breathing, another one of the woman's adopted daughters is coming forward with her story.

Joni Leak said that she was close with her adoptive mother, Sherry Leak, when she first started staying at her house.

She said that in the last few years, however, her adoptive mother became increasingly abusive.

“She took Mialah [Leak] in her bedroom, and smacked her, and I couldn't do anything about it, because I couldn't get to her, because she had her living room set up where I couldn't get to those kids,” Joni said.

Joni said that she lived on and off for several years with the woman accused of sitti

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