This article aims to understand the way that mothers are subjectively exposed towards the acknowledgement of intrafamilial sexual abuse against their daughters. The participants of this research were mothers of girls victimized by sexual abuse within families and who have attended the specialized program. We used interviews, carried out individually. The data were analyzed with the support of the Alcest software through the Descending Hierarchical Analysis. The data dealt about the characterization that mothers do about the sexual abuse of children (temporal dimensions are about the situation involving abuse and details about how it happened, expressing the presence of verbal threat or through objects) and their subjective experiences before the knowledge of the situation (report feelings about the situation, revealing expressions of disbelief and distrust and recall their own victimization by sexual abuse within families and youth infantry in the past).
mothers; intrafamilial sexual abuse; subjective experiences