VIRGINIA
The Virginian-Pilot
By Jonathan Edwards
The Virginian-Pilot
NORFOLK
The daughter of a former Navy chaplain and retired rabbi testified Thursday that her father molested her in the 1960s and ’70s and tried to cleanse her by rubbing hydrogen peroxide on her genitals.
Eric Aaron Silver, 73, of Cheshire, Conn., sat through the first day of his trial Thursday as his now 52-year-old daughter told the court he started fondling her at their house in the 5400 block of Barnhollow Road when she was 4.
The abuse continued over the next 12 years, she said, even as their family moved among four states and Canada.
“I was humiliated,” she said. “I thought I was the only girl whose father ever did this.”
The Virginian-Pilot normally does not name alleged victims of sex crimes, but Rachel Silver agreed to be identified.
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