YORK (PA)
York Daily Record
September 4, 2018
By Sam Ruland
Eventually, he just couldn’t take it anymore. The abuse, the rape, it became too much to deal with all his own, John Delaney said.
“Processing sexual abuse at any age is crippling,” his voice rising as he recalled the abuse that became all too common for him. “But when you’re a kid like I was, and when your abuser is a priest…it’s a whole ‘nother level of f—ed up.”
Father James Brzyski started to abuse Delaney when he was 10 and living in Philadelphia. Delaney said Brzyski likely abused him more than 100 times.
And there were different stages of his abuse, Delaney recalled.
“You can’t say it started out innocently because there isn’t anything innocent about it,” Delaney said. “But I guess it started out as bad and grew to worse.”
He felt petrified when the “touching and rubbing” started. He wanted to tell someone, but the thought of verbalizing the abuse mortified him.
So, he kept quiet, and the stages of his abuse progressed.
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