"I wanted you to know the pain and suffering he caused me then and still causes me today," Cross, 53, told U.S. District Judge Thomas M. Durkin before Hastert was sentenced to 15 months in prison. "As importantly, I want my children and anyone else who was ever treated the way I was to know that there's an alternative to staying silent. As deeply painful as it has been to discuss this ... staying silent for years was worse.