PITTSBURGH (PA)
Newsradio 1020 KDKA
February 12, 2019
“I was a sophomore in high school when I met David Pullson at Bradford Central Christian in the little town of Bradford and he was my English teacher.” Jim Van Sickle told KDKA Radio’s Marty Griffin and Wendy Bell on Tuesday afternoon.
“He had just come out of seminary that same year. I had just some things happen in my family that had me wondering aimlessly.”
“I was a perfect target.”
Sickle is just one of countless survivors of Catholic priest sex abuse that has come forward to tell their stories in hopes to heal, inspire others, and to get the Catholic Church to stop trying to protect itself, and start healing the survivors of these atrocious crimes.
It is in this pursuit for vindication that has fueled Sickle to travel to the Vatican, where he has meetings set up to speak with people in high-powered positions. He hopes that his meetings will get his messages heard, and, hopefully, be taken to the top of Catholic leadership: the Pope himself.
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