Intrafamily sexual violence against children and adolescents in contemporary takes on the contours of public order problem. This article aims to analyze the subjective experiences of mothers who had sexually abused their daughters within the family context. 13 mothers, with age between 25 and 50 years old, participated in the survey. They were attended the Sentinel Program and selected by convenience sample measured with the criterion of saturation. Woman were submitted to a semi-structured questions dealing with bio-data on socio-demographic and life history technique and subjected to thematic content analysis. The subjective experiences with the situation revealed are experienced based on negative feelings such as guilt, distrust, helplessness and blunting of affect, even to associate your experience, when they were also victimized in childhood. Mothers become targets of negative emotions, which leads to subjective distress, which guides the way they position themselves and proceed with the knowledge of the abuse.
Sexual abuse; mothers; subjective experiences