In fact, accusations of abuse surfaced and were investigated in 1987, but no one saw fit to remove Meier from his post until the year of his death.
Minnie's complicity doesn't change the fact of her abuse, but it does provide insight into its dynamics.
NEW DELHI — The man who was my abuser was a fine host, a good husband, a caring father, a respected elder whose generosity and kindness were as genuine as the fact of the abuse.
"The man who was my abuser was a fine host, a good husband, a caring father, a respected elder whose generosity and kindness were as genuine as the fact of the abuse," Nilanjana S. Roy wrote in The Opinion Pages.
Confirming the facts of sexual abuse, the most intimate sort of crime, has always been difficult, with far too many victims keeping quiet about their abuse or not having their stories believed.
It's a sad fact of humanity that abuse in the church is a perennially timely subject, but Tom Keneally's latest novel seems to be particularly well timed with the ongoing royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse.
In the spring of 2004, the fact of pervasive prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib became public, on "60 Minutes II" and in a series of articles in these pages by Seymour M. Hersh.
Two years later, in late 1994, the archdiocese told parishioners that Father Curran had in fact been removed because of abuse accusations.
The fact is that stories of abuse which are placed next to soft porn on the next page are designed to titillate.
The fact, acknowledged by Thiessen, that at least 100 prisoners died in American custody, as well as the fact of well-documented abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, such as religious and sexual humiliation, supports my claim.
