YORK (PA)
York Daily Record
December 10, 2018
By Brandie Kessler
The program that appeared to be designed to support them left some sexually abused Catholics feeling even worse.
Mary Handler remembers some of the details so vividly that it’s like it happened yesterday instead of decades ago.
She was 5-½ years old, sitting in the backseat of her family’s car.
Family cars in the 1950s were big — and felt exceptionally so to a child. Handler remembers it was dark out, her mother was in the front seat holding a baby and her father was driving.
Handler was wearing a dress. It was summertime.
Next to her sat the priest her family was taking to the bus station.
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