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[The following is the Victim Impact Statement which was prepared by a mother whose son was sexually abused by Father Dan Miller – the statement was read to the court on 17 September 2013 by the victim’s sister]
I sit here in this court room as a mother of a son who was your victim Dan Miller. I was a mother who trusted you with her son, to go with you to the movies and overnighters to your mother’s house. Now I know, years later that I had completely failed him as a mother. I trusted in you with my son as I waved goodbye to him as he headed away on an adventure as he would call it with you. I was a failure as a mother not to see beneath your smile and charismatic personality that you were truly evil. You-were and are a pedophile.
In our home you had been welcomed. You were invited in as a faithful leader of my family, with open arms and trust, a trust that I had allowed my children to have with you. A trust I never thought would be broken or shattered as it has now been.
I have spent this past year and a half sad beyond words. It has consumed me and my thoughts. The guilt, the anger, the sadness has taken control of my aging thoughts. This Mr. Miller is how I will spend my last days on earth. This is what your actions have done. The tears still fall but the love for my God has not faulted. He is with me always. I tell God that I forgive you each and every day of my life but I know that God knows differently, so far. It is because of your disgusting actions as a man, a man that I called Father & friend that I now live a life of sorrow. I have died inside knowing that I failed to protect my son from you. I did not know that a wolf in sheeps clothing existed in my family’s world but we do now, don’t we Mr. Miller.?
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