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SHANE COWLISHAW AND TALIA SHADWELL
GRAPHIC WARNING: Some content in this story may upset some people
In the dimly-lit room of a Wainuiomata presbytery bedroom, priestly robes lay strewn across the floor.
Background music plays softly on a record player, while on the bed a drunk teenager is about to be raped by her priest.
The girl can’t feel her legs and has no idea what’s happening.
“I’ll always remember that bloody horrible Leonard Cohen album.”
The year is 1974 and the 18-year-old is Ann-Marie Shelley.
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