‘Stop protecting the perpetrators’: Sask. survivors push Catholic Church to release names of abusers

TORONTO (CANADA)
CBC News

Dec. 20, 2019

By Jason Warick

His hands shake as he circles the block.

He wants his nightmares, pain and loneliness to stop. Should he kill one of the priests who began raping him at age six? Should he kill himself?

Tears stream down the 25-year-old’s face. He thinks of his promising career as a pitcher. He doesn’t want to give that up.

He drives home and sits awake all night before finally crying himself to sleep.

That was 30 years ago. Basaraba worked with a friend to write down these and other stories of his life.

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