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6 December 2017

Woman abused by Caldey Island monk tells of lasting impact

‘Alice’ says she fled UK to escape the painful memories but would return to give evidence in any inquiry into abbey.  A victim of a monk who abused girls on Caldey Island has described how she took drugs to numb the emotional pain and eventually fled the UK to escape the memories.
Alice – not her real name – told the Guardian her earliest memories were of the monk, Thaddeus Kotik, and how he lured her with sweets and pets into dens he had set up around the remote island off the Welsh coast.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/dec/05/woman-abused-by-caldey-island-monk-tells-of-lasting-impact