‘I was speechless’: Child sex crimes victim shares her story after abusers are sentenced

POWHATAN COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- For the first time, 8News is hearing from the victim of child sex crimes about the incidents that led to a conviction and sentence for one of her two abusers earlier this month.

The victim, now 18, asked us to call her “B.”  She lives out of the state of Virginia so she was comfortable showing her face.

8News previously reported that 50-year-old Daniel Kidd of Powhatan County was sentenced to 33 years in prison on June 11 for child exploitation. B’s other abuser, her aunt from her dad's side, 36-year-old Rosalinda Delgado Rosas, was sentenced to 25 years in September 2024.

It was when B was just 15 and left Michigan to visit family, specifically her cousin, Rosas' son, that she experienced a betrayal like no other. 

“It was so unreal to me that my aunt would ever do something like that -- imagine something like that," B said. "I was speechless...she was someone that I really looked up to.”  

B was in Powhatan from April 1, 2022, until April 8. But before she even landed, the trip took a turn.  

“It was on the plane when my aunt kinda disclosed to me, kinda wanted to plan this whole thing for him to kinda please him and fulfill his fantasies that he had," B said. "I remember being on the plane kinda not thinking that it was even gonna happen. There’s no way that they would actually have, I guess, the guts to do something like that.”  

Court documents and B say Rosas was dating and living with Kidd at the time.   

“Every single night would end being in the room where, you know, abuse would take place again," she said. "I’m kinda like trapped, I can’t really leave...So then when things actually started taking place, I was just in so disbelief, I couldn’t really say anything. I would say the full effects of everything that happened didn’t really happen during the time because I wasn’t really processing.” 

B said from the first night and every one after that, she was forced to engage in intercourse with Kidd while Rosas sat in the bed with them and watched. She said during the day, she was showered in gifts.  

“There was a lot of gifts, there was a lot of like expensive -- like going out and getting expensive things," she said. 

Kidd paid for things like B’s flights, an Apple Watch, clothes, lingerie and a fresh manicure.  

“My aunt had like told me to ask him if the nails I got, like if he would like him because, you know, he’s paying for the nails, I guess, so, she wanted to make sure that he liked them," B said.  

She said her aunt also told her to lie about the gifts so her parents didn’t get suspicious. During the day or in public, B said Rosas and Kidd acted normal.  

“It was really kinda at night behind the scenes, like when my cousin was asleep, that they would take me to their room," she said.

Court documents state she wasn’t allowed to be alone with her cousin or in certain parts of the house. Those records also show there were several cameras set up, including in the room B was staying in. The cameras could only be accessed through Kidd's phone.

“In order to get through the day and make sure that like my cousin or anyone else didn’t notice I had to make sure that I was like, I had to put on like a face," B said. 

And when it was time to go back to Michigan, B said Rosas made her pinky promise at the airport not to tell anyone because no one else would understand.  

But when she got off the plane, she came forward.   

“It was kinda this now or never moment," she said. "I told my stepdad that as soon as we got in the car and we’re pulling out of the airport that I need a kit done, and from there he already knew what I was talking about.”  

After three years of fighting in the court system, B said she feels justice has been served, but not without a permanent strain on her family.  

"It’s like this element of distrust on both sides of the family too," she said. "My dad or my mom never -- they -- if my brothers go to their aunt’s or uncle’s or any family, it’s like they’re not going to be able to trust them... as much as I wish he [Kidd] could’ve gotten life, I also am very realistic about the sentences that are given out, which 30 years is a pretty heavy sentence.” 

B said she was able to talk to her cousin for the first time in three years after Kidd’s sentencing on June 11.  

“He’s like a brother to me," she said.

B plans to start college in Michigan this fall majoring in bio-medical sciences and wants to work in family medicine.