Bernard Preynat says he’d been abused repeatedly by a priest, a sacristan and a seminarian. FMTNews
LYON: A defrocked French Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of boy scouts decades ago told his trial on Wednesday that he himself had suffered similar assaults in his youth, in an unexpected twist to his defence.
During the second day of the trial in the French city of Lyon, Preynat surprised even his own lawyer in raising for the first time in court the abuses he said he suffered in his youth. “Without accusing” the church, the former priest questioned the hierarchy’s responsibility for not insisting he be treated even though they were alerted about his sexual urges.
He said he had told his confessor about actions and urges he described “as a sin” but the “priest gave me absolution and encouragement to ensure I don’t start again.”“My wife caresses me. With him, it was masturbation. He touched me like a beast,” recalled Stephane Hoarau, who was eight years old at the time.
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