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Affair or Abuse? The Church’s Hurtful Response
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:57:50
Publish Date: 2023-07-27 20:24:09
Description: adult clergy sexual abuse, wound, response, church


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Victims of adult clergy sexual abuse often report that their first wound—the abuse itself—was awful. But it wasn’t as bad as the second wound: the response by the church to their abuse. 

This is precisely what Moriah Smothers and her husband, Jack, describe in a follow-up conversation to our initial podcast interview about the alleged abuse Moriah received at the hands of her former pastor, Patrick Garcia.

 
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