The Abuse Was So Common It Became Normal’ – Video

The Guardian
February 3, 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/feb/03/catholic-priests-victim-the-abuse-was-so-common-it-became-normal-video

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Leslie Turner, a retired primary head teacher, was paid ?17,000 in compensation by the Irish Christian Brothers, after claiming two teachers from the Catholic Order sexually abused him at school in Sunderland in the 1960s. The church has not accepted liability for the alleged abuse. Turner, now 66, has waived his anonymity in a film for the Guardian to allege he was molested from the age of 12 by two Irish Christian Brother teachers at St Aidan’s Roman Catholic Grammar School in Sunderland between 1961 and 1967. Both men are long dead, but he sued after being diagnosed with delayed onset post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of what he said he suffered.