In the summer of 2001, Abbey, then 13, was an aspiring cheerleader spending a week at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., as part of a sports camp held every summer for hundreds of teenagers. "I really wanted to be a cheerleader when I got to high school," she said. "I thought I was going to learn some new tumbling skills for cheerleading." But by the time her one-week camp session was over, Abbey, who had just finished seventh grade, would be sexually assaulted by Robert Burdge, a 22-year-old Air Force cadet who was serving as a counselor...