Family struggles to restart after stepfather’s sex abuse conviction

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Family struggles to restart after stepfather’s sex abuse conviction
By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, November 3, 2009

SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany — It’s what Navajos call a "third eye" that first alerted Amber Holcomb that something was wrong on a cold November night one year ago.

"It was an instinct," Holcomb recalled. "Something just didn’t feel right."

Eight weeks pregnant, she awoke to use the bathroom in her tidy military apartment in Bitburg, Germany. There, she discovered soiled baby wipes stuffed into the bathroom trash can.

Then she found her 14-year-old daughter lying awkwardly on her bed, sprawled halfway off the mattress.

Holcomb tapped her on the shoulder.


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