MEMPHIS (TV)
News Channel 3
Nov. 21, 2919
By Nina Harrelson
As the number of priests and clergymen accused in the Catholic church sex abuse scandal grows, one survivor is sharing his story and hoping it will encourage others to come forward.
More than 40 years have passed, but for Ger Prendergast, not even decades can heal the emotional scars left behind from the sexual abuse he endured as a young boy in Ireland.
“I can’t even remember how many times, to be honest,” he said. “‘In the church or in his house. It happened in the school a couple times.”
He said a priest enticed him with little packets of heart candies with messages on them — “which I’ve never eaten since, can’t stand them,” he said — a slice of marble cake and a red apple.
He recalls the moment his priest hand-picked him from the classroom, at just 9 years old, asking for a volunteer.
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