DOYLESTOWN (PA)
The Intelligencer
October 8, 2018
By Kyle Bagenstose
Mark Rozzi, a state representative from Berks County who was raped by a priest as a child, visited Bucks County on Monday and called on state Sens. McIlhinney and Tomlinson to support a measure that would open up a two-year window in the statute of limitations.
In 2016, before his colleagues in the state’s House of Representatives, Rep. Mark Rozzi, D-Berks, retold how he was raped in a shower by a priest at age 13. He ran from the shower, throwing on his clothing as he fled the church rectory, burying the incident until 2009 when a friend, also a victim of abuse from the priest, took his own life.
“He took the gun, and put it to his chest, and killed himself,” Rozzi said in 2016. “I have tremendous guilt that I didn’t speak up sooner. That if I did, could I have saved other lives?”
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