Four women and a man who say they are victims of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic nuns held a news conference yesterday
outside the Silver Spring headquarters of an organization of nuns to spotlight what they contend is an unrecognized problem.
"I'm
here today because I'm concerned that in the midst of the sex abuse
scandal about priests . . . people are not paying
attention to the fact that people were sexually abused by nuns and
sisters," said Mary Guentner, 46, a social worker from near Milwaukee
who said she was sexually abused by a nun for four years,
beginning in her senior year of high school.