Apple ID secondary mail address

Because of a mess-up made by a kid, my Apple ID password has been reset and I received this notification:
If you believe you have received this email in error, or that an unauthorized person has accessed your account, please go to iforgot.apple.com to reset your password immediately. Then review and update your security settings at appleid.apple.com >
, which is coincident with the secondary e-mail address, got the password changed and now I have noway to get the access again to the mail with the instruction to reset the password
When I access iforgot.apple.com  an e-mail is sent but the kid mentioned before has made a mess also in the e-mail password and therefore I got stacked.
In order to access this forum I had to create a new Apple ID.
My question is: how can Apple system send the istructions for password recovery to the main e-mail (not the secondary one) ?

Go to Settings/General/Reset and choose Reset All Content and Settings. This will erase everything on the iPhone and allow you to set it up again as new with the proper Apple ID.

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