MINNESOTA
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[with video]
Boua Xiong
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Pope Benedict’s reign started at the height of sex scandals in the Catholic church. Eight years later, as he steps down, the issue still plagues him as much as it does the victims.
“He didn’t finish his job,” Bob Schwiderski said Monday after he learned about the resignation.
Schwiderski was an altar boy for St. John’s Catholic Church in Hector more than five decades ago. It was there he said he was sexually abused repeatedly by a priest.
“I was 7-years-old the first time,” he said.
The abuse continued until he was 11. He didn’t tell anyone until he was in his 30s and only after he found out others suffered the same way he did too. Over the years, he listened to the Pope apologize and set new reporting rules, but he said that was never enough.
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