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April 22 2012 Sexual Abuse by Priest in Catholic Church Orphanages, Run by Nuns.

This all started in 1997, when I first told about the abuse in the two catholic church orphanages.

It took me 14years of justice for the sexual abuse to me by a priest when I was 15years old. Bishop John Cunneen found the Taylor family, the father was now 84years of age, he has shifted up to Blenheim from Timaru years before, his wife had died. the person who went up and spoke to Mr. Taylor, came away and on returning back to report to Bishop Cunneen, Bishop of Christchurch New Zealand, he told the Bishop that the Mr. Taylor that he spoke to, was not the Taylor family I had stayed with in Timaru.

When I was sent a letter telling me about this bad news, it set me back, and I though am I dreaming it? No! I will not put doubts in my head. I know that I was in Timaru two times, one at 15 years old, when I was sexual abused by a priest and the 2nd. time when I was 19years old, when I tried to kill myself, because of all the pain and stress I was in. The 2nd. family were good catholic people, having eight children, raging from 18years to new born after I had gone down there.

I then wrote back to the Bishop and told him, that I was sexual abused by a priest and sent him a copy of my photo of the family I was with. I had to find this family, no matter how hard, or far it would take me. I would not let it go, letters and email sent back and forth, to the Bishop of Christchurch and myself, two emails sent to Pope John Paul II he got it going again, by sending a priest up to see me. I told him that he had to meet me at my lawyer's office, I saw him 2times there. it went well, and yes he did say that i was sexual abused by a priest, but that was still not enough, for the catholic church.

As well as that, I have made more complaints because of the re-abuse to me in Wellington New Zealand and of how 3priest used the sexual abuse to me, by three priest as a joke, at a meeting they were at. Yes the sister of one of the three priest told me about this, when I meet her as I was coming out of my lawyer's office, on bank street. I was very up set to hear that and went right back and told my lawyer about it.

It was good that I did do this, because years later when my complaint was looked into, my lawyer told them about that day and also told them how upset I was. for some unknown reason, they took the words of lies, from the priest sister who took three days to tell them, were as I told them right away when the asked me in person about that day. they had come up to see me, as well as Bernadette and she could not tell them face to face, she had to wait three days. I bet that she had got hold of her brother [the priest] and he had told her what to say. She told them that I did not understand what she had told me. For Christ sake, it was straight forward. All she had to do, was tell the truth.

I have seen this so many times in the catholic church. They tell you something and a little while later, they are telling a different story and coming from a church, people take their words before they giving us a hearing. I can say now, that it is getting much better, the people are now, listening to us, as they know we are telling the truth.

Too many of us, telling the same stories. Maybe we are feeling different in how we feel about it all, as some of us went within us, other went wild, some drink, some went to jail.

The priest who is the head of The Path to Healing, Fr. Cahill, told me and two other women who were with me,  that he liked walking be-hide us girls, because we had beautiful legs. It was looked into and this Path to Healing priest had told them, that he might of meant, that he said, that when he was a boy, he liked looking at our legs. NO! he did not say that. Is this why he became a priest? To get closer to girls?

A catholic counselor asked me, if it felt nice, to be sexual abused, while she was counseling me. Oh I did cry when she said this, I right away went to the little girl in me, she would not let this go without saying some thing. She was so hurt, so could not stop crying, and she called out loud, I was a child, and they were grown ups who did this to me. I did not know it was sexual abuse or sex, and it hurt me so much. I left the room crying and never went back, I had again being re-abused by the catholic church.

I was to be told later,  that it was alright for them to talk to us, in this manner. This is out of line for any counselor to say this to any of us, sexual abused men and women.

I still feel so let down by the catholic church, she just keeps covering up, what she has done to us children and now when we call on her for help, she re-abusers us again and again and still covers the re-abuse up as well. She can not tell the truth, she keeps putting every thing back onto us, as if we are the abusers now, for coming out and telling our stories.