MINNESOTA
The Catholic Spirit
Maria Wiering | February 2, 2015
A little girl, around age 10, squints in a black-and-white photo. She wears short hair with bangs, and a blouse with a pointed collar.
She does not smile.
The photo passed from person to person in the chapel of the Church of St. Paul in Ham Lake, where about 50 people gathered Jan. 29 to pray and listen to victims/survivors of child sexual abuse share their stories.
It belonged to Connie, a 59-year-old survivor who described being raped by her parish priest around age 9.
The photo was taken of her sometime after she was victimized. When Connie looks at it, she sees a struggling child, she said.
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