NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY MICHAEL O’KEEFFE
Kathryn Robb, a sex abuse survivor, had a recurring nightmare when she was younger.
She opened up to her mother in the dream, revealing that her oldest brother would slip into her bedroom late at night and sexually abuse her. And then — still in the dream — her family’s Long Island home promptly burst into flames.
Robb, 56, says she doesn’t need Sigmund Freud to tell her that the dream represented inner turmoil. She was deeply traumatized by the years of sexual abuse, but she also feared that telling her parents would rip her family apart.
“The family, like the church, is a sacred institution,” Robb said. “That’s what makes it so hard to come forward.”
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