PITTSBURGH (PA)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
July 15, 2018
By Peter Smith
Jim VanSickle recalls the “long walk” into the room where members the 40th statewide grand jury waited to hear him.
“I was nervous, I was sweating, thinking, ‘Lord, give me the words that I need,’” recalled Mr. VanSickle, 55, of Coraopolis.
He sensed an assurance from that Lord, in whom he has retained faith in spite of the betrayals he felt from its purported ministers: “Just be true to yourself and your story.”
So he told his story. He testified how his trusted priest and high school English teacher mounted a humiliating, life-altering assault on his teenage body and innocence.
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