YORK (PA)
York Daily Record
August 23, 2018
By Brandie Kessler
John Delaney knows what’s happening in the hearts and minds of those whose abuse is detailed in the recently released grand jury report on Pennsylvania priest sex abuse.
He lived through what they’re all going through now — the range of emotions from anxiety and excitement, to embarrassment and exhaustion.
Delaney, 47, was in their shoes back in 2005, when a grand jury investigation into the Philadelphia archdiocese was presented.
Delaney, born and raised in Philadelphia but now living in Tennessee, was sexually abused and raped for years by a priest in his parish beginning when he was 10 or 11 years old.
Fifteen years ago, when Delaney testified before the grand jury investigating the archdiocese, he disclosed things he hadn’t ever processed.
“I spent weeks telling them things that had happened that I hadn’t really mentioned before,” Delaney said. “It was long, and it was exhausting.”
Delaney’s abuser, Father James Brzyski, was called one of the archdiocese’s “most brutal abusers.”
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