People hold
quilts at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels for victims of sexual
abuse by priests in the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles in Los
Angeles, California in 2013. The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles,
after years of legal battles, had finally released files of priests
accused of molesting children and removed a top clergyman who had been
linked to efforts to conceal the abuse.
"I have been a labor slave and a sexual slave for a group of depraved
people, who were protected by Church officials," an alleged victim of
child sex abuse, now aged 36, has written in a letter to the Pope. "In
the three years I spent at the mission in Nariokotome, in Kenya, I was
treated like a beast of burden. There were around 30 people, and on top
of the slave work there was the sexual slavery. They would tell us that
an active sexual life is something that God wants, and that He also
wants us to go around naked, because that is the way He made us. Help
me, Francis. Soothe my broken soul a little. Don't let other youths
endure this hell."http://www.christiantoday.com/article/man.claims.he.was.sexual.slave.for.depraved.people.protected.by.church/69613.htm