Don't Tell Anyone: How Grooming Delays Disclosure

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 24:55 Courtroom Implications 30:23 Wrap Up and Resources ResourcesPredictors of Abuse Duration in In-Person Child Sexual Grooming Cases - Kayla D. Schick, Kaila C. Bruer, Katie A. Berens, Angela D. Evans, Heather L. Price, 2026Support the showDid you like this episode? Please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts.