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HennyPenny ago

Yep, signed it. I think what complicitclergy wants is more childhood survivor testimony against McCarrick to crop up.

carmencita ago

People have had enough and with the Pen diocese news coming out, they will be inclined to come forward. We need to out all of them and not stop posting until people say Enough! We also must stand up for Victims and make people realize it is not their fault. Not their fault that it happened nor that they waited so long. The abusers love to demoralize them. No More.

HennyPenny ago

And when the subject of child abuse is raised even though the victim might be famous and deceased (like Aretha Franklin), I don't think people should shove it under the rug or criticize others who publicize it like the blogger reaction to the Mirror article on her (see below). The more sunshine the child abuse receives the less it will flourish in the dark.

"She was 13 when she became pregnant and 14 when she gave birth to her first son, named Clarence, after her father – who did not chastise her, perhaps remembering that in 1940, during his marriage to Barbara, he had fathered a child with a 13-year-old member of his Memphis congregation. At 16 Aretha gave birth to another son, Edward; the identity of neither father was ever revealed."

https://www.closerweekly.com/posts/aretha-franklin-childhood-motherhood-164818 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/16/aretha-franklin-obituary https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/aretha-franklins-secret-life-orgy-13076265

carmencita ago

How horribly sad. Yes, they all try to hide their past because their agents want to make them stars, and we can not have none of that, even though it is not their fault. She must have done something, as they all say.