LONDON (ENGLAND)
Express
April 2, 2018
By Peter Saunders, National Association of People Abused in Childhood
THERE are many myths around this sordid subject of child abuse. One is that women are not perpetrators.
Let’s nail that lie. I offer Myra Hindley, Rose West and the many men I have spoken to over the years who have suffered abuse at the hands of women. And that includes abuse by nuns.
Many people, victims of these crimes, find it very difficult to talk about it.
Men find it particularly difficult to talk about abuse at the hands of a woman.
As a member of the victims and survivors consultative panel to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse and as a Roman Catholic, I am appalled at the response of the institutional church to these dreadful crimes.
Like most church organisations there is a lot of talk of remorse and action but there is little evidence of the latter.
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