As she speaks in detail about her ordeals as a child, Hoelzer's eyes well up, but she composes herself and never cries. Hoelzer believes the abuse may have lasted two years, until the pedophile moved away when she was in third grade. But it remained a secret until she was 11. "I never once connected the dots that I was being molested," she said. "When I thought about it, I wanted to think of something else."