Survivors' Accounts

Diocesan files and court cases are precious sources of survivors' witness. Legal affidavits are the the most detailed and personal accounts we have of sexual abuse by priests, and the nearly 200 bishops' archives contain thousands of survivors' accounts. These letters and memos of conversations convey the evasions and secrecy of the bishops, and the frustration and intimidation regularly experienced and overcome by victims of abuse.

Shanley in Boston

This 2003 account of alleged abuse by Rev. Paul R. Shanley is a plainspoken and harrowing description of entrapment, rape, and its devastating aftermath.

Next Page