CALIFORNIA
Daily Breeze
By Nick Green, Staff Writer
dailybreeze.com
Posted: 02/09/2013
Rita Milla felt a pang in her stomach last month as she began reading a thick church file related to her landmark sexual abuse case against the Los Angeles Archdiocese.
The Carson resident received the file on Jan. 29, almost 35 years to the day years of horrific sexual abuse by seven priests began when she was just 16. A judge had ordered the file and those of other abuse victims in Southern California released as part of a legal settlement against the archdiocese.
“The 28th of January 1978 was when I was first raped,” said Milla, now 51, as she sat last week Thursday in the Wilshire Boulevard office of civil rights attorney Gloria Allred.
It was the first in-depth interview Milla has granted since the documents were made public.
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