Oprah Addresses Abuse Scandal

"I have a lot of responsibility," Winfrey said in an interview with ABC News when she opened the school. "I feel it. I said to the mothers, the family members, the aunts, the grannies — because most of these girls have lost their families, their parents — I said to them, 'Your daughters are now my daughters.'"

At the press conference Winfrey repeated, "These girls are like my children, this is not rhetoric for me."