By William Lobdell
Daily Pilot
November 29, 2010
http://articles.dailypilot.com/2010-11-29/news/tn-dpt-1130-lobdell-20101129_1_sexual-abuse-albert-lee-schildknecht-elaina-kroll
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For years, Elaina Kroll had stopped singing.
The Newport Beach resident had been robbed of her childhood passion by her church choir director, who molested her. The sexual abuse she had suffered as a bewildered 16-year-old had been, in her mind, cruelly fused together with music.
In the subsequent years, she would drop out of a prestigious music conservatory in Boston, suffer from depression and no longer have the desire to sing.
But Saturday night, at the fundraising gala in Anaheim for The Innocent Mission — a nonprofit she founded last year — Kroll will play the piano and sing Sarah McLachlan's hauntingly beautiful "Angel."
Tears will flow, including mine.
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