WASHINGTON
Seattle Times
By Lewis Kamb
Seattle Times staff reporter
When the list came out and he didn’t see the name on it, Steve O’Connor felt victimized all over again.
“It’s like ripping a scab off one’s arm,” O’Connor said Monday. “And they just keep ripping it off and ripping it off.”
Where was the name Daniel Adamson, a Catholic schoolteacher who sexually abused O’Connor as a child?
“I was shocked when I read the archdiocese’s list,” said O’Connor, 67, of Spokane.
But not especially surprised. After all the secrets, lies and threats to keep him quiet, O’Connor, a retired police officer, said little about the Catholic church surprised him anymore.
Earlier this month, the Seattle Archdiocese released a list identifying 77 clergy members “for whom allegations of sexual abuse of a minor have been admitted, established or determined to be credible.”
The list represents the most detailed accounting of its kind for the archdiocese spanning Western Washington. It includes priests and other clergy, most of them now dead, who served or lived in the archdiocese dating to the 1920s.
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