Rape and abuse that reflected on me and many others by the priest in my own case with more by the cover up of those crimes the facilitation of the collusion with them and that we were able to expose that by catholic bishops and indeed by the vatican itself so how hard was it for you to make your case how did church resistance change things for you where you prevented it from speaking out what was i mean 1st of all it was very difficult to get to the point where i could challenge my own. I suppose internal inhibitors the the the only spoken authority of the church wasnt something that was external to me it was internal so when i 1st start to think about in the mid 1900 about 1904 about doing something about what had happened to me more than a decade earlier. My 1st instinct was to contact the bishop from as opposed to contacting the police so i had bought into this idea that the church was the ultimate authority and that it was it was to them that i needed to look to thankfully i didnt
Speaks with a campaigner in the battle against child sexual abuse stay with us. For a welcome to sophie and co and Sophie Shevardnadze sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is once again in the spotlight was encouraged to europe and north america what can be done to make a big thing of the past call gorman himself a survivor insider against sexual abuse is with me today to talk about this. Another way for 6 when abuse allegations is hit the Catholic Church with reports painting a grim picture of systemic proportions implying that even high ranking Church Officials are complicit will pope francis. Take the fight against abuse personally and be able to break the system what are the roots of this plague that is easy no way of the church and how will it transform the global conflict. Palma warman survivor and fighter against sexual abuse welcome to the show its great to have you with us today. You have been complaining for accountability for clerical child abuse for more than 20 years what k