In the controversy over child abuse by Catholic priests, one group is being overlooked--adult wome.
Alexandra Roberts talks about her 11-year friendship and sexual
relationship with Father Fred Tollini of Santa Clara University, tears
well up, and her voice grows shaky. Part of the pain comes from knowing
that some will assume she's to blame for any entanglement with a man of
the cloth.
In the current controversy over sexual abuse by the clergy,
the victims are children, not adults. For years, Roberts didn't think
she'd been exploited. "I just thought it was an affair gone wrong," she
says. But after a series of eye-opening events, she came to believe
differently.