"I will pour forth my anger, my scorn, my hate before you. I wish upon him poison and gall, he shall be blind, starving, and lonely. God, do you not see my helplessness?"

"Night after night the memories come back, like howling dogs. I cannot cope with them."

Another accused his tormentor: "From him nothing shall remain, his name extinguished. Strike it out of the Book of Life."

The student in a girls' boarding school, who with head shaved bald and in a straight jacket lay in her own excrement, who at the point of a cane held by a nun had to clean herself up.

The far-too-premature boy, who through the love of his parents developed so well that he could study theology – and after sexual abuse by a priest mentally fell back to a four-year-old level.

The pedophile pastor, who despite the pleas of a mother of one of his victims was after a year's pause sent into other parishes.

"We acknowledge that we would not recognize the truth, that we have covered up and given false witness."