WASHINGTON
KUOW
By LIZ JONES
The child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church continues to raise new questions. For one victim in Western Washington, the question is “Why is my abuser not on this list?”
TRANSCRIPT
It wasn’t until age 63 that Steve O’Connor told his full story — to a jury in King County.
O’Connor: “When Dan Adamson came to my house and I’m 12 years old, he says, ‘I’ve selected Steve as my special boy.'”
Adamson was O’Connor’s seventh grade teacher at St. Benedict School in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood. And for two years, he raped O’Connor routinely at school, in motels and in a basement room O’Connor calls the “torture chamber.”
He says he tried to tell his story back then.
O’Connor: “I told a lot of people. The principal of Dominican nuns, Sister Marie. Father Conrad, the pastor. My parents. My brother. The emergency room physician at the University of Washington hospital when I was injured by this person. This was wide out in the open.”
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