I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part 3, 'I trusted him.' Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Friends and Acquaintances: Beverly Sky, A Priest's Kiss; Jana Vincenti, Daughter; and Lillian Kelly, Aftermath Summary

Part 3, 'I trusted him.' Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Friends and Acquaintances: Beverly Sky, A Priest's Kiss; Jana Vincenti, Daughter; and Lillian Kelly, Aftermath Summary and Analysis

In A Priest's Kiss, Beverly Sky was forcibly kissed by a parish priest when she went to the church early to receive the Ash Wednesday blessing. Beverly's father was a devote Catholic even though he rarely went to church himself and refused to speak to Beverly when, instead of telling the truth, simply refused to go to church again. Beverly not only lost her belief in the church, but she lost her relationship with her father. In Daughter, Jana Vincenti relates to the reader how one of her mother's boyfriends raped her while her mother was taking a shower in the next room. Jana suffered terrible pain from the rape, as well as confusion as to exactly what had happened, but she did not tell her mother until almost four years later. Jana was only seven at the time of her rape and she would continue to wonder why this...
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