KENTUCKY
NECN
Jun 8, 2012
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A long-serving Kentucky state lawmaker and child advocate is speaking publicly for the first time about the sexual abuse he suffered by a Catholic priest at his grade school in the 1940s.
Democrat Tom Burch of Louisville wrote about the abuse in a letter to the editor published last month in the Lexington Herald-Leader. He wrote it to condemn the Vatican for attempting to impose more control over Catholic nuns who Pope Benedict XVI felt had not been more vocal against gay marriage and abortion.
Burch said in the letter that he had never been sexually abused by a nun, “but I was sexually abused by a priest.”
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