NEW JERSEY
North Jersey Record
April 4, 2019
By Deena Yellin
When Johnrocco Sibilia finally broke a 29-year silence about the priest who he said sexually abused him when he was a teenager, he said he hoped to ease his pain and extinguish the demons that tortured him for years.
Instead, he said he was thrown into a labyrinth of frustration that left him wondering if opening up about his past was a mistake.
At first, he said he was hopeful, moved by Cardinal Joseph Tobin’s impassioned speeches apologizing for the sins of the church, and urging victims to step forward.
But when he approached the Archdiocese of Newark, he said, each person to whom he revealed his terrible secret sent him to someone else or brushed him aside.
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