ROME
Local 10
(CNN) –
An Irish woman who detailed her own harrowing experience of child sexual abuse at the hands of a priest spoke out during a Vatican symposium on Tuesday, telling church officials that an apology was not enough.
“Those fingers that would abuse my body the night before were the next morning holding and offering me the sacred host,” Marie Collins told an audience at Gregorian University in Rome. “The hands that held the camera to photograph my exposed body, in the light of day were holding a prayer book when he came to hear my confession.”
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