When K.T.’s 5-year-old daughter first said that she’d been sexually abused by her father, K.T. was skeptical. She couldn’t imagine him doing such a thing. K.T.’s partner denied the accusation looking at K.T. in the eyes and swearing it wasn’t true. But when her daughter brought it up again, this time with even more detail, K.T. began to believe her.
“I didn’t know what to do, because it was like, the two most important people in my life were telling me opposite stories,” said K.T., whose name Crosscut is not using to protect her identity and that of her daughter. “One of them was lying.”
K.T. reported the alleged abuse and
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