CANADA
Times-Colonist
By Jeff Bell, timescolonist.com October 9, 2012
Leona Huggins travelled to Victoria from the Lower Mainland on Tuesday to follow an alleged case of child abuse by a priest.
Huggins, a 50-year-old Coquitlam teacher, said the Victoria case hit close to home: her own past involves abuse by a priest in the 1970s, when she was a teenager. That man was eventually convicted in 1992 after pleading guilty and served 10 months in prison, but Huggins found out last year that her abuser had re-emerged in a parish across the country.
Discovering that he had been “recycled” by the church was devastating, Huggins said.
“It sort of threw me back to the beginning.”
The situation prompted her to speak up, Huggins told members of the media outside the Victoria courthouse. She said she hoped that making her voice heard would help children.
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