Fear kept many men from revealing past memories of priest abuse
Cedar Rapids, Iowa --
Daniel Ortmann was 34 and undergoing therapy before he told anyone he had been abused by a priest near his home in Palo when he was 14. Mike Dalton of West Branch gradually told friends and family over the years that he had been abused by a priest in Iowa City when he was 15 years old. But he wishes he had not waited 42 years to tell the church. Ortmann, now 36, and Dalton, now 58, have never met. Yet they have much in common. Their stories tell why a long-running, worldwide scandal in the Catholic Church has only recently come to light.
Read the article at Cedar Rapids: Gazetteonline.com dated February 17, 2005
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Daniel Ortmann was 34 and undergoing therapy before he told anyone he had been abused by a priest near his home in Palo when he was 14. Mike Dalton of West Branch gradually told friends and family over the years that he had been abused by a priest in Iowa City when he was 15 years old. But he wishes he had not waited 42 years to tell the church. Ortmann, now 36, and Dalton, now 58, have never met. Yet they have much in common. Their stories tell why a long-running, worldwide scandal in the Catholic Church has only recently come to light.
Read the article at Cedar Rapids: Gazetteonline.com dated February 17, 2005
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