Disgust, validation, hope: Survivors, Catholics react to report detailing 70 years of Colorado clergy sex abuse

DENVER (CO)
Denver Post

October 25, 2019

By Elise Schmelzer

Seeing Father George Weibel’s name printed in the newspaper Thursday brought Hazel Lorraine Kroehl back to the Broomfield swimming pool where 60 years earlier the priest abused her.

Emotions flooded Kroehl. Then old shame crept up, before being washed away with gratitude. Finally, the world knew the priest for who he was — a pedophile.

Then Kroehl, 72, burst into tears.

“This is the first time I’ve ever cried over it,” she said Thursday.

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