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/EINPresswire.com/ (Plymouth Meeting, PA)— American Catholic Dioceses have spent $2.1 billion so far on settlement-related costs for the multi-decade sexual abuse scandals involving their priests and bishops, reports Reuters.
Recently, American cardinal Joseph William Levada announced that more than 4,000 cases of sexual abuse of children by priests have been investigated during the last ten years.
“The number is shocking and dramatic but, sadly, more cases are likely to emerge,” says Peter S. Pelullo, a frequent guest on the Dr. Drew show and author of the recently released
book “Betrayal and the Beast.”
In his book Mr. Pelullo focuses on his own journey as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and sexual predation. For many years he kept hidden and refused to face his own debilitating issues as a survivor—the shame, frustration, multiple addictions, depression, and other influences that directly impacted his life. Finally, at the age of fifty-five, Mr. Pelullo confronted the sexual abuse he endured as a child.
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