Psychology - Abuse and Recovery

From the Houston Chronicle: Diana's grandson came to her with his secret on a Thursday evening. School had just started after another humid summer, and she and the 14-year-old, whose parents had their bowling league that night, finished cleaning up the kitchen after dinner. She took a glass of iced tea and her cigarette pack outside for a smoke.

Minutes later, he followed. The boy said he had something to tell her, something that had been bothering him for many months. And that's when things changed.

'He had broke down,' recalled Diana, who asked that her last name be withheld to protect her family's identity. 'And he told me about it.'

Diana won't say exactly what 'it' was. But the Harris County Sheriff's Office detailed the teenager's disclosure in criminal reports this fall. Her grandson, a football player who speaks in ma'ams and sirs, said he had been sexually abused the year before, when he was 13, by a woman nearly 20 years his senior. She was a former neighbor and his mother's close friend in Highlands, the small town just east of Pasadena where his family once lived. The pair had sex at least twice and sexual contact another time, according to the reports.

The teenager had been saving himself for marriage, he later told his grandmother. He worried that God might not forgive what he did.

Police arrested Deborah Joyce Lux, 33, in September and charged her with two felony sexual assaults of children: one in connection with Diana's grandson and a second in connection with another teenager, a then-15-year-old boy from Highlands who also said he had sex with her.

Continued at "Many still don't see women as sex predators"

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