NORTH CAROLINA
Times-News
By Michael D. Abernethy / Times- News
Published: Thursday, April 24, 2014
GRAHAM — A 41-year-old woman took the witness stand this week and alleged decades of sexual abuse by her father in locations around the world as the family traveled on mission trips.
She told her husband and a church friend about the abuse after her father, Emmett Thomas Cosier, 76, of Boyne City, Mich., allegedly raped her twice during a Christmas visit in Snow Camp in 2010. She and her husband went to the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office with the accusations in May 2011.
For years, the woman blocked out the events — even when they occurred after she was married and had children — she said. Under questioning Tuesday and Wednesday, she sometimes became confused about which incidents she was being asked about.
“I have a hard time keeping it all straight in my head,” she said Wednesday, before listing about a dozen ages, locations and circumstances when she recalls her father raping her.
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