Still very hard for me to understand.
A good friend of ours was raised in a large Catholic family and is pretty certain that some of his cousins had been molested. The family had a history of sending their boys to a particular school in Wisconsin. They had been doing that for generations, and there are suspicions in the family that the uncle had had it happen to HIM as well.
(shudder)
Tia
"Nobody will believe you" were usually the last words an abuser uttered to his little victim as he dropped them off at home, or ushered them out the door.
And, until the early 80s, nobody did believe them, so they just carried the horrible secret around with them.
I'm really surprised, frankly, that some of these victims haven't taken the law into their own hands.
The sadder ones turn the gun on themselves.
There's lots of anger out there, and the smarter bishops are telling their lawyers to take a hike, and they're listening to the victims, one by one.
Some of these guys just want somebody in authority to understand what happened to them.