Lulu Garcia Navarro

You write that it was because of, and I'm quoting from your book here, the violence of penises being repeatedly forced into your mouth.

I quote from this because you are being so clear about the unimaginable things that were done to you

I'm sorry for what happened to you.

And as you're processing all of this, you learn that the police have also found pictures of your daughters-in-law.

in the shower, and of your daughter, Kaholin, asleep in underwear that she says she doesn't recognize.

And all three of your children are having to deal with what their father has done.

Kaholin ends up having a breakdown.

She ends up being hospitalized.

It must have been so difficult to balance being a victim yourself and having to be a mother of adult children in need.

You mentioned that pain doesn't bring a family together, it can often tear it apart.

It just strikes me that when you were talking about how happy you were and what a family person you were, how proud you were of being a parent and a grandparent, to have your family pulled apart in this way must have been very painful.

In the book, you write about how you have struggled to reconcile your happy memories with the knowledge you have now about the reality of who Mr. Pelico was.

And you write, and I'm quoting here, if the last 50 years of my life were taken away from me, it would be as if I had never existed.

I would be dead.

I mean, that's a very complicated idea.

Can you explain how you've tried to work through that?

This all leads us up to the trial itself.

In France, victims of sexual violence have the right to have their identity protected.

But you make this extraordinarily brave decision to waive your anonymity, allowing an open proceeding where members of the press, members of the public can see what is going on inside the courtroom.

Can you take me into that decision, how you realize that this is something that you wanted the world to see?