Clergy Sex Abuse Novel Attracts Media Attention

By A.dean
Ao Advocates
August 22, 2012

http://www.aoadvocates.co.uk/child-abuse-general/clergy-sex-abuse-novel-attracts-media-attention/

A new book by Ray Mouton called "In God's House" has gathered significant press attention recently, including interviews on BBC Radio 4 and TV3 in Ireland. The book is a work of fiction, although largely based on the author's experience as a lawyer involved in the Church sex abuse scandal. Ray Mouton was engaged by the Church in the 1980s to help it defend the rising allegations, but after some time he suggests he saw the Church's tactics as aimed at camouflaging the situation rather than remedying the victims. The book took the author over 10 years to write as he collated more information about the crisis which he sees as having a global reach. He decided to style it as a work of fiction so as to emphasize the universality of this problem. We welcome the publicity it has been given and hope it will succeed in extending the public's interest in addressing the ongoing crisis.