PENNSYLVANIA
The Times Herald
By Second in a Series, By Kathleen E. Carey, kcarey@21st-centurymedia.com, @dtbusiness on
POSTED: 10/03/16
PHILADELPHIA >> About 40 people sat in the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center one recent evening, their focus intent on the large projection screen in the middle of the front of the room.
“I was 10 years old,” the boy in the film tells the viewers. “I faced my molester every day not knowing if he was every going to mess with me again. And, he did do it again, and again, and again.”
Seven minutes into the two-part film, which lasted about a half hour, a clean-shaven, brown-haired man comes on the screen.
“The first child, as close as I can recall, I was 10, he was 5,” he said. “He was a neighborhood child who looked up to me, and I took advantage of that to lure him into a field behind our parents’ house and to trick him into, force him into taking his clothes off.”
This raw footage, based on testimony from actual abuser survivors, as well as the stories from perpetrators themselves, is part of an intense, two-and-a-half hour training regimen that the Archdiocese of Philadelphia requires of any adult — clergy, employee or volunteer — who has regular interactions with children.
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