US Catholic Church sex abuse victims still haunted after decades

QATAR
Al Jazeera

October 20, 2018

by Heidi Zhou-Castro

The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into child sex abuse by priests in Pennsylvania.

At least one sexual abuse survivor discovered that the very church official to whom he had reported abuse now faces sexual abuse accusations of his own.

The survivor, who now leads a group of clerical abuse survivors that is demanding reform and justice from the Catholic Church, spoke with Al Jazeera.

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