CAPE TOWN (SOUTH AFRICA)
Cape Argus
March 18, 2018
By Bulelwa Payi
The Anglican Church has been rocked by another disclosure of sexual abuse, a few weeks after a well-known author broke a 40-year silence on his own experience.
This week, David Fields (not his real name) recalled how the abuse lasted from the late 1970s until the early 1980s when he was 13 years old.
“As a young boy I grew up in church. Our parents wanted us to attend church and priests were looked up to in the community as people with authority and power.
“The priest and another one in the parish started taking an interest in me, but at the time I didn’t know why nor could I understand what the interest was all about. Then the abuse started with touching and led to sexual activity.
“The other priest stopped pursuing me. But one continued. He would come to our home, telling my parents he was taking me to church events. This continued for about four years. And suddenly he was moved about 150km from Cape Town.
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