Man Speaks About Alleged Abuse By Priest
Des Moines, Iowa --
A man who's suing over alleged abuse by a Des Moines Diocese priest said he's not the only victim.
John Chambers filed a lawsuit against Rev. Leonard Kenkel, his Dowling High School teacher, claiming sexual abuse when he was 14 years old in the 1960s.
Chambers said the abuse was widespread, and so was the cover up.
"It was very commonly known among the students of Father Kenkel's behavior," Chambers said.
He said Kenkel fondled him and many others during biology class.
"For me, we would be doing maybe an experiment, or a reading, or a paper, and he would walk around the classroom. He would come up to me and bend over to see what I was doing and start to rub my shoulders, down my back, down below the belt line, on the outside of my underpants, then he'd pull up my shirt tail and get inside my underwear and rub and kneed, and fondle my buttocks," Chambers told NewsChannel 8.
Chambers never said anything to Dowling administrators, though he said he thinks they knew. He said it continued to happen to others well after he graduated.
"As I say if you do the math, it might be hundreds. Sounds phenomenal. And it's like well where have they been? Where have I been? Well, we were afraid and we repressed and we just went on with our lives and we didn't want to deal with it," he said.
Read the article at TheIowaChannel.com Dated May 2, 2005
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A man who's suing over alleged abuse by a Des Moines Diocese priest said he's not the only victim.
John Chambers filed a lawsuit against Rev. Leonard Kenkel, his Dowling High School teacher, claiming sexual abuse when he was 14 years old in the 1960s.
Chambers said the abuse was widespread, and so was the cover up.
"It was very commonly known among the students of Father Kenkel's behavior," Chambers said.
He said Kenkel fondled him and many others during biology class.
"For me, we would be doing maybe an experiment, or a reading, or a paper, and he would walk around the classroom. He would come up to me and bend over to see what I was doing and start to rub my shoulders, down my back, down below the belt line, on the outside of my underpants, then he'd pull up my shirt tail and get inside my underwear and rub and kneed, and fondle my buttocks," Chambers told NewsChannel 8.
Chambers never said anything to Dowling administrators, though he said he thinks they knew. He said it continued to happen to others well after he graduated.
"As I say if you do the math, it might be hundreds. Sounds phenomenal. And it's like well where have they been? Where have I been? Well, we were afraid and we repressed and we just went on with our lives and we didn't want to deal with it," he said.
Read the article at TheIowaChannel.com Dated May 2, 2005
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