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"When someone sexually abuses someone, they take their power away from them," Bob explains to James.

"What do we do about it? Do we go hide our head in shame? Or do we say, I'm going to be the guy in my family that's never going have this thing happen in my family again.'"

"There are a lot of people in America that are ashamed, so ashamed that they won't talk about it, but they keep perpetuating it inside their families. It never gets known, and it keeps going."

"Hearing my son talk about his abuse hurts me so deeply that I can physically feel his pain," says Tracy.

She knows now that she is going to have to face the ghosts of her past in order to help her son.