Why I name names??... it is because their names will not leave me... I
know their names from 18months... up throughout my 25 abusive years...
in the two catholic church orphanages... I call their names out...
because it gives me a wee bit of relief... from my pain and shame of it
all... it is like a stone wall which I have to push down... but it is
far too hard for me... to even push it an inch out of my mind... Ann
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Barbra Graber is a leader of the Anabaptist Mennonite Chapter of
SNAP (Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests). She attends Park
View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
“It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator.
All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. [The
perpetrator] appeals to the universal desire to see, hear and speak no
evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the
burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering.”— Judith Herman