Beckie Francis remembers sitting on her couch last year, staring in
amazement as she watched Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts reveal on TV
that he was a survivor of sexual abuse.
Francis turned to her husband and told him she could do the same thing.
The women's basketball coach at Oakland University shared her story with parishioners at her suburban Detroit church, and with her players.
And now, she is telling everyone else in hopes that it will encourage
victims of sexual abuse to seek help, and to assist parents and children
to avoid what she endured.