TENNESSEE
WSMV
[with video]
Reported by Hayley Mason
GALLATIN, TN (WSMV) –
For nearly 10 years, the 14-year-old step-granddaughter of Randy Guilliani has sat in silence toiling with heart-wrenching memories of the abuse she endured as a child.
“Because I was so young, I wasn’t sure if it was right or wrong,” she said. “I knew that it felt weird. It felt different,” she added. She says it started when she was just five years old. Guilliani sexually assaulted her and did not stop until she was six.
“It took a long time for me to finally come out and say it. It was bothering me a lot. I started going to counseling. I was getting depressed,” she said.
She said she would go to Guilliani’s home in Hendersonville almost daily after school when her mother had to work. Guilliani, who told police he was once a worship leader, most recently at a Gallatin church, was always nice, she said, and spoke in a “sweet voice.”
“He told me not to say anything, so I wouldn’t,” the teen said. “I didn’t think that it was anything bad.” As she got older, she realized it was not only bad, it was a crime. “I would remember what happened and I started thinking to myself, ‘Oh my gosh, he did such horrible things to me when I was a little girl.'”
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