MILWAUKEE (WI)
Journal Sentinel
December 15, 2017
By Ashley Luthern
It started when she was in first grade, when she still had her baby teeth.
Robert Marsicek, a priest she trusted, repeatedly molested her at a Catholic school in Wauwatosa.
“My little self thought it was OK and I thought that this was normal,” she said.
The girl, now 16, told a Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge how she cried herself to sleep or didn’t sleep at all. She developed anxiety. She thought of hurting herself, even ending her life.
“I began to realize that he chose this for himself,” she said. “He did this to me and I did not ask for it.”
She asked Judge Mark A. Sanders to put Marsicek behind bars, even though prosecutors had recommended probation as part of a plea agreement.
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