Kaycie, who preferred to not give her last name, is photographed in Pleasanton, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. Kaycie was sexually molested as a toddler and has benefitted from the services of the Tri-Valley Haven. They received funding this year from Share the Spirit, an annual holiday campaign that serves needy residents in the East Bay. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

Molested as toddler, woman starts to heal after call to Tri-Valley Haven

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Bay Area News Group

When an older male relative started molesting her, Kaycie was too young to understand she was being exploited. She was maybe 2 or 3 years old.

When she was 9, Kaycie and her dad were watching a movie with a sex scene, spurring her to ask what the characters were doing. “He told me about the birds and the bees,” she recalled. “Everything clicked, and I realized what had happened to me. I cried.”

She also told her parents what had happened to her, defying the threats of her molester. Her parents confronted him, and the assaults ended.

But the pain didn’t.

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