I was one of more than 1,000 victims in Catholic Church sex abuse scandal

NEW YORK (NY)
New York Post

August 15, 2018

By Tamar Lapin

A man who was one of more than 1,000 children in Pennsylvania preyed on by “predator priests” says he is still traumatized 39 years later — as he called the grand jury report chronicling the abuse a “victory” in a “war that’s just beginning.”

Jim VanSickle told the Washington Post he was 16 in 1979 when he met a young priest named David Poulson, his English teacher at Bradford Central Christian High School.

“I was a lost kid,” said VanSickle, who is now 55.

His grandmother had just died and his father was sick and couldn’t work. So he found a mentor in Poulson, who was 26 at the time.

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