AUSTRALIA
TVNZ
Published: 8:08PM Friday July 27, 2012
A man who as a child was abused by a paedophile priest has been found dead in his car after the pain became “just too much for him”, his wife says.
The body of John Pirona, 45, was discovered by police in a car at Tomago near Newcastle in the early hours of Friday morning, nearly a week after his wife Tracey last saw him on Saturday night.
Ms Pirona said she alerted police to his disappearance after finding a letter that spoke of the pain he felt being linked to a paedophile priest and of his wish “to go nobly”.
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