BIRMINGHAM (AL)
WVTM 13 Digital
December 14, 2018
The Catholic Diocese of Birmingham today released the names of priests accused of sexual abuse of minors.
Robert Wilford said one of the priests, Charles Cross, abused him as a teenager in Birmingham in the 1960s. “You don’t forget about it. You never will. I don’t really think about it in detail every day. There’s not a day in my life that some thought doesn’t pop up in my head,” he said.
Wilford said he suffered from depression, alcoholism, and post traumatic stress disorder and came forward decades later. “I was just very irate and decided to go ahead and make it my mission to force Cross out of the priesthood, so that’s why I came forward in 2002,” he said.
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