#40: Former Police Officer Reveals: The System is Failing Survivors

In this powerful episode of The Trauma Queen, I sit down with Kristi McVee, a former police officer who spent over a decade in child protection and sex crime investigations.

Kristi opens up about the heartbreaking realities of working inside a broken system — one that often fails the very children it’s meant to protect. With a frontline view of grooming, abuse, and institutional inaction, Kristi shares the patterns she saw over and over again… and why survivors so often remain silent.

🔍 In this episode, we explore:

• What grooming really looks like (and why it’s so often misunderstood)
• Why victims don’t disclose — and what we need to stop asking them
• How power, shame, and fear keep survivors quiet long after the abuse ends
• The devastating limitations of the legal system
• What Kristi wishes every parent, therapist, and teacher knew

⚠️ This episode will wake you up to how deep this problem runs — and why healing must go beyond the courtroom.

🎧 Tune in now if you’ve ever wondered why survivors stay silent, what really happens inside child protection services, or how we can actually change this system for good.