UNITED STATES
City of Angels
Crimes of pedophile priests in Australia and USA too similar to be coincidence
By Kay Ebeling
“Hello, John it’s C from the Royal Commission here, how are you. John: Good, thanks.” John Brown agreed to let me transcribe and publish his submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Australia.
The commission report released last week shows that when a nation looks into child sex abuse at an institutional level, “well over half” took place in Catholic Church properties. Why Can’t the USA do an inquiry like the one just completed in Australia?
As I transcribe John’s testimony, he says, ““I found myself in a school that the teacher happened to be the nun who sexually interfered with me before … and I was groomed by Kevin O’Donnell who’s a pedophile priest.” I realize that’s eerily similar to Ted’s story from the USA, which I’d been working on in Chicago, but then he’d said, don’t publish it. In that case the perpetrator was Gilbert Gauthe, who like O’Donnell, is a prolific and now-infamous pedophile priest in his region. Both boys were sexualized by nuns who then were party to the crimes of the priests. I got back in touch with Ted, said, you have to let me publish your story along with John’s, because they’re so much alike. Ted said, yeah okay go ahead.
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