NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY MICHAEL O’KEEFFE
Stephen Jimenez returned to Windsor Terrace for the first time in 25 years Tuesday and was bombarded by warm memories — and raw, gut-wrenching emotional wounds.
Jimenez grew up in a three-story home in this leafy Brooklyn neighborhood surrounded by a loving extended family.
This was also where a Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School teacher named Brother Romanus repeatedly sexually abused Jimenez for nearly four years in the 1960s. Jimenez said Brother Romanus, a member of the Xaverian order who died in 1992, assaulted him dozens of times between the ages of 10 and 13 in a classroom closet, bathhouse locker rooms and swimming pool changing rooms, even under the boardwalk at Coney Island.
“I love this place,” Jimenez, 62, said as he sat on a park bench and wiped tears from his face. “But it is really difficult to come back. I feel like a piece of my life has been stolen from me.”
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