Case Study Nicole Bromley

Nicole Braddock Bromley is a young woman who was abused by her step-father for ten years. Nicole’s step-father married her mother when she was 3 years old and the abuse began at the age of 5 and continued till she was 15 years old. Nicole never told her mother because she felt she would ruin her marriage and destroy her family. Her step-father wasn’t always the sexual abusive monster; he was also a loving and involved father which made it harder for Nicole to tell someone about the abuse. Nicole referred to this as “grooming” which means the abuser softens up the victim by showering them with love, attention or gifts basically just making the victim feel special. When the abuse began at 5 years of age, her step-father began to brainwash Nicole …show more content…
She recalls back when she was in fifth grade, a lady came to her classroom to speak about child sexual abuse and what was considered appropriate and inappropriate touches. She remembers after the lady finished speaking, she went up to her teacher and told her she had something she wanted to tell her but was too embarrassed to tell her face to face but she would write it in her journal. The next day, when it came time to write about it in her journal, she had lost the courage to tell her secret. The teacher never asked her what she wanted to talk about, even though it was obvious it had something to do with the lesson they had been taught the day before about sexual abuse. Maybe if the teacher would have been more involved the sexual abuse wouldn’t have continued for another 5 years. Nicole finally told her mother about the abuse and her mother reported the abusive and has been very supportive. Nicole is now a sexual abuse awareness speaker that goes to different schools and churches to tell her story and encourage children to tell someone if they are being

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