ALLENTOWN (PA)
Morning Call
September 15, 2018
By Tim Darragh, Riley Yates and Christine Schiavo
For the last 20 years, Diana Vojtasek could barely speak about the sexual abuse she says she suffered as a Catholic high school student during a vulnerable time in her life.
When she married in 1997, her husband, Mark, didn’t know about what she would later describe as forced sexual encounters with a priest, who has since been defrocked.
And when a civil lawsuit she filed in 2004 failed to advance because it missed a legal deadline, she said, “I just kind of went back into my little hole.”
With three little children at the time, Vojtasek, who lives near Reading, said she became consumed with protecting herself and them.
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