AUSTRALIA
Geelong Advertiser
December 10, 2015
Fr Kevin Dillon
Geelong Advertiser
“JIMMY” was only eight years old when he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest, soon after he started serving Mass in his local parish.
It was 1964, and he had been taught that priests were honourable people doing God’s work.
He had no idea of what to do, what to say, whom to tell.
He was bewildered, and because of what the priest had told him, even ashamed — sometimes just a little, at other times overwhelmingly guilty.
So he did nothing, said nothing, and told no one.
He had been a talented student until then — always near the top of his class. Then, inexplicably to family and teachers, his learning ran into a brick wall.
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