A Christchurch man wants the Catholic Church to release information he says it has about a priest who sexually abused him as a 12-year-old.
George Russell said he was an alter boy in Temuka when he was abused by Father Cornelius O'Brien in 1972.
He has avoided churches ever since.
Russell said he knows the Catholic Church has a dossier on O'Brien, who has since returned to the UK and died.
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