'Inside job': Clergy sexual abuse survivor shares story decades later
CTV News Windsor - October 29, 2024
Windsor, ON - After nearly 50 years in silence, Chris MacLean is ready to share his experience of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
MacLean, who now lives in Toronto, said he was taken advantage of by Father Joe Nelligan while attending Brennan High School in Windsor in 1979.
“It wasn't just my parish priest who I saw on a weekly basis, and if I didn't like him, I could just not go. He was at my high school,” MacLean told CTV News.
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