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An autobiographical play about childhood sexual abuse has transformed an accomplished playwright into a political campaigner who is influencing the Vatican.Groo
When Patrick Sandford was just nine years old, he was groomed and sexually abused by his primary school teacher.
He said he feared he would be labelled a potential abuser himself because of a myth that persists that many men who were abused as children go on to perpetuate that abuse. According to the research, carried out for Mankind and seen by the Guardian, 9% of people identifying as men said they had been raped or assaulted by penetration, 14% had been coerced or pressured into sexual activity and 21% had taken part in sexual activity with an adult while under the legal age of consent. Respondents were asked if they had experienced 15 different categories of unwelcome or non-consensual sexual activi...