00:00I was a very quiet, shy, young girl and just honestly not thinking anything was being done
00:07was wrong. I thought back then that it was a form of love. I was abused as a young girl
00:14when I was
00:15seven years old for 10 years until I was 17 years old. The first time I told was my grandmother.
00:23I was nine years old and I remember that conversation very clearly and I said,
00:28Grammy sometimes at night he touches me and her response back to me was, shh Kathy we don't talk
00:35about it and I kept that secret from nine years old until I was 28 years old. Just not telling
00:42anybody. I would work three jobs to try to stay busy busy so I didn't think about it but it
00:49wasn't
00:50until reading about it, reading about priest abuse in the paper and I said mine was not a priest
00:56but it was somebody, my stepfather and that's not right. He shouldn't have touched me. He shouldn't
01:03have said, Kathy come to my cleaning job and abuse me. Kathy go with me to my the package store
01:11and
01:12get beer. How does a mom not say anything when you're gone for an hour? My abuser, my stepfather
01:19was an auxiliary police officer. So for me, I couldn't go to the police station because I thought
01:26that they would not believe me.
