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Buffalo News
By Melinda Miller | News Staff Reporter
on November 24, 2015
The Sunday school student sexually abused by her teacher – a teacher who also was the son of her minister – was so disturbed by what was happening that she began cutting herself and considering suicide.
The young victim described how Caleb Sexton’s abuse was emotional as well as sexual.
“He never apologized or showed remorse, even when he found out I was hurting myself,” she wrote in her victim’s impact statement in a letter to Erie County Judge Kenneth E. Case. “Caleb was an adult, 13 years older … He misused God and the Bible to try to justify his sexual behavior.”
The girl, who was 13 when the abuse began and is now in high school, said she continues to have flashbacks, trouble eating, and difficulty trusting people and making new friends.
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