Several other women who said they experienced sexual abuse at Calvary said what happened to Kum scared them and deterred them from speaking up about the abuse they said they endured until years later.

“At the time, they really treated us like we were the ones who did wrong and it’s no wonder why the other girls were always afraid to come forward because a lot of them saw what happened to me,” Kum said. “I was basically the Scarlet Letter.”

Grant told Kum and her parents, Dan and Laura Anderson, at the time that he was taking care of the problem and the Andersons and Kum said they were led to believe that Madison police were involved and aware of the man’s behavior. They later learned that police were never contacted.

“They really did believe it was reported and I think they were doing what they thought was right at the time,” said Kum. Anderson said she believed for decades that the police reviewed the allegations, only to find out in recent years that was not the case.

After the confession, Kum and the man continued to see one another and eventually got married, she said. He promised her an exciting life and, looking back, she remembers just going along with it.