"Her dream was to go to school," Lydjay Acopio says of her daughter Myca, speaking in her native Tagalog. "When my eldest son was in first grade, she helped him put on his uniform. But she never got a chance to study."
On the night of June 29, 2019, the family was sleeping at home on the outskirts of Manila when they heard glass shattering downstairs. Someone was trying to break in. Outside they saw seven men in dark jackets and masks. Lydjay's husband, 41-year-old Renato, removed the air conditioner and climbed onto the roof. Lydjay says three-year-old Myca followed her father.
