YORK (PA)
York Daily Record
December 12, 2018
By Mike Argento
The grand jury implored everyone to take heed of all they had learned. Here’s how their report shook up the world.
Marcia Hince lived with it all her life.
It’s difficult to explain. It was like a malignant growth, something that resided inside her being, infecting her soul, hoping against hope that ignoring it or suppressing her thoughts about it would make it disappear.
She felt alone, isolated, cut off from the rest of humanity, as if she were an alien being occupying a human body.
“I felt like I was the only person this happened to,” she said, “that I was outside the human race.”
She remained silent about it for years.
Then, in 2002, after the Boston Globe’s groundbreaking expose of child sexual abuse perpetrated by members of the Catholic clergy, she reported what happened to her to the Harrisburg diocese, writing a letter that outlined the abuse she endured and the consequences on her life.
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