At the age of 35, “Marie” told her mother again about the abuse.
because she knew full well that she did not risk anything.” In fact, her parents had told the nuns that she was being sent to boarding school because she needed to be tamed. How dare you say such things?” her parents told her. “You are really a pervert, a vicious liar. “Marie” couldn’t talk to her devout Catholic parents about the abuse until a friend convinced her to do so. We were of course in pleated skirts and not in pants. After which she would put me on her knees to make me read the gospel according to Saint Paul or another saint, while she squeezed me with one hand to her chest and pulled down my panties with the other hand. “She would take me to her office, lock the door, and then draw the curtains. She would choose me once every two or three times,” she recalls. But the nun wasn’t looking for someone to help her. She remembers a nun who would come to her class every day to choose a student to help her with Mass. ROME-“Marie” was placed in a French Catholic boarding school for “young girls from good families” when she was in the fifth grade.
