Victims of alleged clergy sexual abuse find their voices … and each other

Jim VanSickle recalls the “long walk” into the room where members of the 40th Statewide Grand Jury waited to hear him. “I was nervous, I was sweating, thinking, ‘Lord, give me the words that I need,’” recalled VanSickle, 55, of Coraopolis. He sensed an assurance from the Lord, in whom he has retained faith in spite of the betrayals he felt from its purported ministers: “Just be true to yourself and your story.” So he told his story. He testified how his trusted priest and high school English teacher mounted a humiliating, life-altering assault on his teenage body and innocence.

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