Don't Tell Anyone: How Grooming Delays Disclosure - One in Ten | Lyssna här

In this episode of 'One in Ten,' Host Teresa Huizar interviews McGill University doctoral candidate Kayla Schick about grooming and how post-abuse maintenance tactics contribute to delayed disclosure and longer abuse duration. Schick explains delayed disclosure as common in child sexual abuse and describes offender tactics that discourage reporting, including secrecy demands, threats, guilt, victim blaming, and confusion about whether abuse occurred. They discuss implications for prevention, caregiver education, grooming-specific training, interviewing about concealment, online versus in-person detection, and reframing delayed disclosure in courts as a grooming impact rather than a credibility flaw.

Time Stamps:

Time. Topic

00:00 Episode Setup

01:25 Kayla Research Journey

02:31 Delayed Disclosure Basics

03:33 Tactics That Silence

05:08 Six Phases of Grooming

08:55 Study Questions

10:17 Key Finding Concealment

13:32 Online vs In Person

14:54 Prevention Talking Secrets

22:09 Next Steps for Field