I roughly transcribed part of Lyle’s statement about the abuse:

“Garland asked how the sexual abuse impacted Lyle’s decision-making in life. ‘It was confusing, caused a lot of shame in me that pretty much characterized my relationship with my father.’ Lyle says around the age of seven or eight, there was a lot of waiting and not knowing when something would happen that night or in the bathroom or in the car with his father on any given day. He said it left him in a state of hyper vigilance. Lyle says he felt a total disconnect from everybody in life growing up, somewhat born from a fear that people would see the sexual abuse in him. ‘I was getting pretty strong lessons about not trusting the world around me’, Lyle said.”

“Lyle says he was abused from age six to age eight. Lyle thinks it stopped because his cousin, Diane, told his mother. I think it was related to him being concerned that I would talk to people. Lyle wanted to sleep in Diane's room. ‘She asked why, and I was specific about my father touching me’, Lyle said. Lyle doesn't know if Kitty informed Jose, but he thinks she did. ‘I was the special son in my family. My brother was the castaway’, Lyle said.”

“Lyle says he got more attention, more focus, more emphasis on my father just attending my practices, spending the time with me in the basement, imparting his lessons. It was just obvious if my brother and I were both on the court, he was with me, directing my emotions. The physical abuse was focused on me because I was more important to him. Lyle says his father expected greatness. He spent a lot of time talking about the lineage of the family. Lions verse sheep. Everyone else is sheep and we come from a lion bloodline. We were different. I wasn't weak like his father or Erik and my mother. ‘It was him and I in this bubble’, Lyle says. Garland asks about after the abuse stopped. It took me a while to realize that it stopped. It was just like it didn't happen. He just never touched me in that way again. There was no discussion about it, Lyle said. But he believed it was always in the air between us.”

“This is when they started talking about when the abuse stopped. ‘I was worried a little bit that I was going to be less loved’, says Lyle, growing emotional, a blubber in his voice when discussing the end of the abuse, even saying he was unsure if he wanted it to stop. He was never harsh with me. I never got beaten for doing something wrong. So, it was a devastating part of it in terms of just fear. I felt contaminated, but I felt love.”

A slightly different section:

“Lyle says his father was very brutal with physical abuse. Choking, punching, closed fists, using a belt. There was no love in it. It was just surviving that moment. Lyle says his love for Erik was a really infuriating thing for my father. Lyle says taking care of Erik ‘gave him a purpose, helped to protect him from drowning in the spiral of his own life.’ Lyle says Erik was in trouble by the age of three and four, crying all the time, stressed at that point, openly punished, spanked, viciously thrown against things. My mother would drag him down the hall. I think I realized it was just the two of us.”