ST. LOUIS (MO)
The Daily Beast
September 5, 2018
By Pilar Melendez
After announcing an investigation into sex abuse within the Catholic Church last month, Josh Hawley seems to be letting down the people who matter most: the survivors.
For Chris Wimmer, the locker rooms at Chaminade College Preparatory School in St Louis were “hell” from ages 11 to 18.
Once active in sports, Wimmer says, he witnessed fondling, touching, and groping hundreds of times in the showers and locker rooms allegedly at the hands of the athletic clergy director at the time.
Wimmer claims he was abused “countless times” by two clergy members at the Catholic high school from 1970 to 1977. He believes the clergy members would just use him “to masturbate” by wrapping their body around his teenage body.
“I remember one time the priest pretended he was giving me physical care and got me naked and into a whirlpool,” Wimmer told The Daily Beast in an interview. “After he had been very thorough of rubbing me, he went around the corner to finish himself.”
The 59-year-old is just one of the hundreds to recently come forward about their harrowing experiencing in Missouri, their outspokenness prompting the state attorney general’s office to take action.
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