`Killed me little by little.` Family detention left lasting scars for one mother and son
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World `Killed me little by little.` Family detention left lasting scars for one mother and son and Meg Bernhard Cristhian, 7, hugs his mother, Lilian Oliva Bardales, in Barcelona. (Michael Ip / For The Times) For a long time, Lilian Oliva Bardales worried about how her young son, Cristhian, was adjusting to their new life in Barcelona. He squeezed her every time he saw a police officer. He got scared when people he didn’t know talked to him. Teachers told her he played violently at school, making dolls fight and pretending to be an officer placing other children in handcuffs. Advertisement They asked if he had suffered trauma. As Oliva saw it, he had. Before coming to Spain, Oliva and...