INDIA
Christian Today
By: KK John
Wednesday, 4 April 2012, 13:23 (IST)
Another nun from the Catholic Church in Kerala is taking the audacity to open up on the sexual abuse faced by nuns in convents.
Sr Mary Chandy left the order 12 years ago when a priest had forced himself on her. The Presentation Convent nun is now penning her ordeals in an autobiography that will be soon released.
In an interview to a local daily, the 76-year-old nun said her autobiography ‘Swasthy’ will create a “whirlwind” of sorts as it exposes the ordeals she experienced in her 56 years of life as a nun.
“I was once the target of rape and when I protested a clergyman’s attempt and took up the issue with the church, it was I and not he, who was put under tremendous mental pressure,” she said in the interview.
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