Her mother proceeded to tell her, very matter-of-factly, that her father had been arrested on charges of sexual assault. You’re in this place where you’re feeling two opposing emotions at the same time and it’s a horrible place to be. “If your brother was accused of sexual assault or sexual abuse, how would you feel?” asked Brian Pacheco, the director of communications at Safe Horizon, a New York City-based organization that provides resources for victims of domestic and sexual violence. In 2015, when Suzanna Quintana left her husband, whom she now describes as a sexual predator, she worried about her role as an enabler. “I clinged to the man that I knew and made excuses for that other man who would show up half the time,” she said.

Source: Huffington Post December 05, 2017 19:07 UTC