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8 December 2015

Priest sex abuse victim challenges ‘culture of secrecy’

Brian Gutierrez, 46, said he filed a lawsuit last year against the Archdiocese of Santa Fe to spare others the anguish he has endured for nearly 30 years and promote a “new era of openness” in the Catholic Church.
A key goal is to require the archdiocese to publicly disclose records that he says reveal the facts of his alleged rape by a priest in 1986, when Gutierrez was a 17-year-old freshman at the University of New Mexico. The Catholic Church still keeps too many secrets, he contends.

http://www.abqjournal.com/686736/news/priest-sex-abuse-victim-challenges-culture-of-secrecy.html