B was like a second father to me.
(intense music)
I completely loved him, completely trusted him.
Robert Berchtold had gone to California,
to go to a clinical psychologist
who would help him overcome this obsession with Jan.
When he came home he had to tell Bob and I
that he was being treated for the abuse he suffered
as a child.
He said to me, Bob, part of my therapy
is to just spend some time alone with your daughters.
Would you mind?
And I said, well, no, I said no, I trust you.
After Jan had gone to bed, he just laid down by her.
Neither one of us were comfortable with him doing it,
but it was part of his therapy.
He was molesting her.
He would always give her vitamins,
and stuff for her allergies,
when in fact, we determined later through an investigation
that he was giving her sleeping pills.
To make his job a lot easier.
I never had an inkling that he had sexual designs on Jan.
We weren't really sure, even then,
what a child molester was.
Well Jan is joining us now.
Thank you so much for being here.
Please welcome Jan Broberg.
(audience applause)
Thank you.
Jan you touched a lot of lives when you were here before,
and were so candid about everything,
and I really wanted you, to back,
congratulations on the documentary,
and it's touched so many lives.
I mean it's been a huge success on Netflix,
and it is such a courageous tale.
So congratulations on that.
Thank you.
You talked about what happens
when you are the targeted victim,
and when you are the subject
of the molestation by the predators.
It changes you in a major, major way.
And it's not something that's gonna fix itself
without a lot of work.
And that's why I wanted you to be here to talk to Savannah,
because you understand
what she's having to deal with, right?
I do.
I completely understand her.
I know where she's been,
and I also can see where she's going.
Right.
And I realize how angry I was with my parents,
and it hit me later.
The wonderful thing about my mother,
was that she was a listener.
She had gone back to school to become a social worker,
because I think she felt so much guilt and anguish and pain
over her part, and so she had worked with foster care
and placing kids in foster care, and adoptions.
And I remember she never, ever tried to play my therapist,
or a counselor or a social worker.
She was just a listener.
And I think that was so key for my healing.
Is that I was so deeply listened to by both parents,
who were great communicators.
Yeah, and it's interesting the parallel,
because your mother went back and became a social worker,
she went to school and became a therapist,
got her master's degree in that regard,
and she came in saying she was really angry at her mother
for not doing what she could have and should have done,
had she seen everything clearly at the time.
In fact, you said, if she had done what she needed to do,
you would have never been sex trafficked,
you would have never been in prostitution,
you would have never, you put all of that on your mother,
for what she failed to do at the time.
I think you then come to a point where, I came to,
where I realized my parents also were limited
in what they knew, and that they didn't understand,
and I knew I wanted to forgive them,
and I wanted to build a relationship with them
and luckily that happened.