Shari’s experience with grooming and sexual abuse

I’m absolutely horrified reading about the grooming and sexual abuse that Shari experienced with Derick (a 40ish year old male who hired her to help with social media strategizing for his company). My heart breaks at how she was treated and how debilitating and confusing it was for… knowing that this wasn’t right but not having any trusted adult she could go to. The way that the man weaponized religion to convince her that what he was doing was only preparing her to please her husband and that it wasn’t sinning. She is clear that they never had sex and never explicitly states what happened but alludes to enough that it was completely inappropriate. I’m still reading the book but I pray that this man is punished for his behavior. The amount of trauma Shari has experienced is appalling. We truly never know what someone is experiencing behind the facade of social media.