Crosses: Portraits of Clergy Abuse: Portraits of Survivors of Clergy Abuse by Ca

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Taken over a period of two to three years, this work presents accounts of children, as adults themselves and in their own words, of a childhood blighted by the violation and horror of sexual abuse at the hands of a member of the Catholic clergy.

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"My name is Robert M. Hoatson. I am 53 years old and I am a Catholic priest. I was born February 15, 1952 and raised in West Orange, NJ and I went to Catholic elementary school and Catholic High School and three Catholic Colleges. It was during my late junior year that a Christian Brother approached me and told me that I was going to be moved into his senior honors English class. That Christian Brother later became perhaps the most serial paedophile in the order." From countless interviews, emails and phone conversations victims of sexual assault recall their experiences of an abuse of power - be they priest, monk or nun - which has followed them into their adult lives. Accompanying their words are black and white portraits of the survivors today, in places that for them echo where they are now, or where they were then. Each has a different story to tell, a unique pattern of abuse, though they all share certain similarities. A certain grooming by the perpetrator, a blind trust of the parents in this person to look after their child both spiritually and in all ways their welfare, all systematically overruled by the one person who a community put their faith in.When the sexual abuse would end, then the self-abuse would often start. Drugs, alcohol, violence. Many went to jail for their crimes, this as a direct result of a much worse one that they had been too young to realise. Others, including two cases in the book, committed suicide. Two prominent writers have contributed, an introduction by A.W. Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist and former Benedictine monk and priest now married to a former Maryknoll nun. Well-known in this community, he has written several books, and counts as a speciality, the exploration of priestly celibacy. Michael Kelly is an award winning newspaper journalist and author, who writes focusing not on the overall clergy sexual abuse problem in the Church, but narrows it down to the individual, the person who is hurt for life.

Author Biography

Carmine Galasso is Senior Photographer at New Jersey's The Record. He is married to Nina Berman, author of Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq (Trolley, 2004)

Details ISBN1904563597 Author Carmine Galasso Short Title CROSSES Pages 200 Publisher Trolley Press Language English ISBN-10 1904563597 ISBN-13 9781904563594 Media Book Format Hardcover Illustrations Yes Year 2007 Publication Date 2007-09-30 Subtitle Portraits of Survivors of Clergy Abuse Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 362.760922 Imprint Trolley Books DOI 10.1604/9781904563594 Audience General/Trade UK Release Date 2003-12-31 We've got this

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