Tamela's parents, Steve and Susie, admit that they struggled to deal with their daughter's sexual abuse but they thought that she would be okay. "I immediately took her to counseling, you know," Susie says. "Of course we talked to the family. But something like this—I was numb, in shock. I had no idea what to do, what to say. I didn't know how to comfort her. … I'm a Christian and I believe in God but I didn't know how to comfort my own daughter."
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