Sobbing hysterically, Kelly bolted from the building to call police then and there. Shortly thereafter, Kelly had the first of eight interviews with Moab police detective Eddie Guerrero.

Police eventually arrested Beck. The Grand County attorney's office charged her with multiple sex crimes. Kelly testified at the trial.

Students and teachers reported seeing Beck and the girl together during lunch breaks and at football games.

Several of Kelly's friends testified to seeing Beck and the girl "making out" in the back of a vehicle on canyon outings. Incidents of other sex acts emerged. A friend testified that Beck offered her alcohol on two occasions.

A jury found Beck guilty of three second-degree counts of forcible sexual abuse in September 2003, and a judge sentenced her to three consecutive terms of one to 15 years in prison. She was also given one year in jail for each additional misdemeanor count of stalking and giving alcohol to a minor.

Beck's imprisonment did not end Kelly's ordeal, and Sherilyn Sowell places the blame "100 percent" on Beck. In the two years following the trial Kelly spiraled downward. She tried to kill herself several times as her parents scrambled for mental health help.

After the sixth attempt, Utah Valley Regional Medical Center admitted her to the psychiatric unit for 13 days. Psychiatrists diagnosed post traumatic stress disorder and depression. For the next year, Kelly underwent treatment in Salt Lake City, Denver and Moab. Therapy ended in February 2005 after the counseling center changed its billing process so patients had to pay up front. The Sowells could not afford the $126 for each session.

Meanwhile, Kelly was finding it increasingly difficult to endure.

The Beck case sorely divided Moab. Some residents didn't believe Kelly; they took Beck's side. The Sowells lost friends over it. A handful of students and even adults around town harassed her mercilessly.

They called her names, and someone "keyed," or scratched, her car. Someone beat her up at school.

She continued to be depressed and traumatized. Her family tried to keep a close eye on her. Kelly told her parents she could not live with everyone thinking she was gay.

The Sowell family filed a lawsuit against Grand County School District and principal Tom Brown on the premise that the school failed to protect Kelly's civil rights. According to the lawsuit, the school had reports from students and teachers about Beck's inappropriate behavior but did not tell parents, the state Division of Child and Family Services or the police.

Kelly knew the lawsuit was pending, and when things got bad at school, her mother told her the settlement might be a way out of Moab.