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Beyond the Secret

Secret 036: The Stepfather.

Beyond the Secret

Ace Fanning

Society & Culture

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Secret 036:  The Stepfather

Ace conducts a rare in-person interview with a brother and sister who were victims of sexual molestation as children at the hands of their stepfather.  The siblings share their difficult process of beginning to face their experiences in a discussion that sheds light on the harsh reality that children confront when home is not a place of safety.

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0:00.0

The following episode contained sensitive material, including firsthand accounts of sexual abuse against children.

0:06.7

Listener discretion is advised.

0:10.1

What's your secret?

0:13.4

Welcome back to another week of Beyond the Secret. My name is Ace Fanning.

0:20.1

This week's interview is a little bit different than some of the interviews that I've done in the past

0:28.0

because this is the first time that I am doing the interview in person.

0:34.0

And the reason I'm telling you this is for two reasons.

0:39.0

First, I want you to know that it's not just me in that room.

0:47.0

I am there, the brother and sister that I'm interviewing are there,

0:51.0

but also her husband and his girlfriend.

0:57.8

And when you have five people in a room,

1:02.2

that's a lot of emotion and at almost every point during this interview

1:10.1

someone's eyes were filling up with tears and I think I've just I've never

1:17.7

considered the impact an in-person interview would have on everything.

1:29.0

But the second reason that I'm telling you this is because there is so much that you as a listener are

1:39.2

missing and I so wish that you could have been there because you just, you won't see, you won't know it.

1:55.0

Like, the way he rubs his sister's back

2:00.0

when she starts to cry,

2:02.0

or the fist bump he gives her at the very end of the interview.

2:07.0

This story is an extremely emotional one and oh my God. It has so much bad in it, but there's also such a beautiful story at the same time

2:30.7

between these two siblings.

2:35.0

I just hope that like, even though you can't see it with your eyes,

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