Abuse victim speaks out in Rome

Published: 7/02/2012 at 10:45 PM
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Shunned by the Catholic Church for decades after being violated by a priest when she was just 13 years old, Irish victim Marie Collins described her traumatic experience at a Vatican summit.

``I had just turned 13 and was at my most vulnerable, a sick child in hospital, when a priest sexually assaulted me,'' Collins said on Tuesday.

She had just been confirmed a Catholic when the young priest _ a couple of years out of the seminary but ``already a skilled child molester'' _ began visiting her in the evenings while she lay in a hospital bed in Dublin.

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Discussion 1 : 07/02/2012 at 09:09 PM1
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Verbal apologies, excuses, expressions of regret by the Church mean very little. Let the Church act in a way which costs the things it values, its art works, its properties, its financial resources. In a profound expression of guilt and reparation let it make public transfer of these possessions to reputable museums, to foundations, to services which benefit humanity. The transfer will force it to return to a dependence on the good will of people who may again recognise a sincerity proved by voluntary deprivation. But if the people are not convinced, let the Church accept its failure and join the other forgotten constructs of history which flourished a while and then decayed.
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