to forget about it, and my mother wouldn t let it rest. my mother was on the news all the time and on shows and stuff, and my friends knew my mother, and i used to tell them, no, it wasn t me. it was my brother. so it s taken me a long time to accept it, to be able to talk about it. reporter: despite his shame over the publicity, flores says she also used to to get him help. she has had several meaoffers t mentor him and get him help. he turned his back on everyone. well, it was a grownup who did this, so now i don t trust grownups. when are you a victim of something, no matter what it is, physical, sexual, verbal no, matter. you live a life of so much trauma that throughout your life growing up, if someone else doesn t victimize you, you victimize yourself and i ve been