Imagine that you’re just a child, maybe 11, 12, 13 years old. You’re sexually abused by the man your family reveres so much — a priest — that they want you to be a priest like him. They’ve invited him for dinner, let him take you to Rye Playland and even let you spend the night at the rectory — where the priest abuses you.
For years you keep that terrible secret bottled up. After all, who’s going to take the word of a kid over the word of a priest?
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