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After Clergy Abuse Settlements, a New Suffering


Society & Culture  (tags: society, Roman Catholic church, children, abuse, sexual abuse, crime, sadness )

Dee
- 91 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
David Guerrero, 41, is an abuse victim who received a settlement from the Roman Catholic church. For Guerrero, the money has seeped like a poison into his every relationship.
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Dee C. (529)
Saturday September 26, 2009, 6:26 pm
"David Guerrero lies curled like a small child in bed, his teeth chattering and his fever spiked at 104 degrees. He has left his room only once since he crawled home from his latest crystal meth binge three days ago, to let his mother drive him to the emergency room for his soaring temperature.

Now, Minerva Guerrero hovers close to her 41-year-old son, making a mental list of the day ahead: she must change his bed linens, nurse him, pick up his new prescriptions."

Read more at site..
 

Rhonda Maness (468)
Sunday September 27, 2009, 2:52 pm
Thanks Dee.
 

elaine k. (0)
Tuesday September 29, 2009, 7:56 am
The Pope needs to come forward and say he will stamp out this abuse.
The after effects must be so painful. My heart goes out to all sexual abuse, it must be stamped out, it should be headlines in all papers all over the world.
 
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