WASHINGTON
KIRO
[with video]
By DAVE WAGNER
SEATTLE — It has been 55 years since Steve O’Connor was first abused by a teacher at St. Benedict School, in Seattle. As he talks about it, there are still tears and pain in his eyes.
“It will never go away,” said O’Connor.
In 2012, a King County jury awarded O’Connor $8 million for the sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of Dan Adamson. Adamson was a teacher, who became principal at St. Benedict School.
When the archdiocese released the names of known abusers 10 days ago, Adamson was not on the list.
“It really put me back in 1962 at St. Benedict’s, in the boy’s bathroom, in the stall, in the projection room, in the choir loft in the pipe room, in the attic in his house, where he lived with his mother,” said O’Connor.
Attorney Mike Pfau says he has represented more than 100 victims of abuse in the Seattle Archdiocese. He believes there are more names that have not been released.
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