They Believed Me. They Did Nothing. (Part 1) — Child Sexual Abuse, Patriarchy, and the Epstein Files

it’s nothing. I’m fine. · Apr 28, 2026 · 47m

What do you do when you tell the truth — and the adults around you believe you, and still do nothing? In this first part of a two-episode conversation, Amy Prieb— licensed marriage and family therapist and survivor of childhood sexual abuse — tells the stories of every time she tried to get help as a child and was silenced. Not because people didn't believe her. They did. But believing a child and protecting a child turned out to be two very different things. Facilitated by Nikki Braaten, this conversation is honest, unflinching, and deeply informed by both lived experience and clinical…