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Ultimately, despite how difficult it was to recount those moments, the opportunity to tell the jury what happened was a healing one, Ms Farmer said. She believes this trial highlighted the truths about how these crimes often unfold, and particularly, about the grooming process, a term experts use to describe how abusers build relationships with their victims over time so that they can exploit them in secret.