“I had talked to my children about stranger danger, but never had conversations about what happens if you have to have dinner every night with the person abusing you.” Nikki felt ashamed because she believed she should have stopped the abuse earlier, but Lisa told her that it was not her fault. What kind of mother am I? The guilt and the shame were deafening-but at the same time I knew I had to do what was necessary for my daughter.” How could this happen? I had so much shame, so much guilt that I had brought this man into my house to molest my child. “As it started to settle in, I replayed it in my mind. Lisa was shocked and ashamed to learn of the abuse.
With her best friend’s encouragement, Nikki told her mother about her step-father’s abuse after he moved out of their house. The abuse started when Nikki was in third grade and continued until she was 15-years-old. Two months after Lisa Gray divorced her ex-husband, she discovered that he had been sexually abusing her daughter Nikki throughout their seven-year marriage.
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