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Raped: Memories of a Catholic Altar Boy
Memories of a Catholic Altar Boy is the brutally honest and horrifying story of one man’s lifelong battle with evil.
Larry Monte Jr. was raped by a Catholic priest beginning in 1972 when he was fifteen years old. The rapes went on for two years. Larry’s mental anguish, shame and torment have lasted thirty-eight years, and will never go away.
Larry’s story looks behind the curtain of what priest sexual abuse really is and how it permanently destroys lives. In graphic and horrifying detail, Larry tells what the Catholic Church’s man of God actually did to him in cheap motel rooms throughout the state of New Mexico and how it shattered his spirit and soul.
An Albuquerque businessman, Larry has shunned the safety of clinical and sanitized terms such as “sexual abuse” in favor of blunt, brutal, everyday language and detail. He hopes that in telling his story with such honesty the world will finally come to fully comprehend the absolute horror, degradation and evil that is “priest sexual abuse.”
He hopes also that the world, Catholics in particular, will wake up to this evil and demand that the Catholic Church and its raping priests be brought to justice.
Larry Monte Jr. was raped by a Catholic priest beginning in 1972 when he was fifteen years old. The rapes went on for two years. Larry’s mental anguish, shame and torment have lasted thirty-eight years, and will never go away.
Larry’s story looks behind the curtain of what priest sexual abuse really is and how it permanently destroys lives. In graphic and horrifying detail, Larry tells what the Catholic Church’s man of God actually did to him in cheap motel rooms throughout the state of New Mexico and how it shattered his spirit and soul.
An Albuquerque businessman, Larry has shunned the safety of clinical and sanitized terms such as “sexual abuse” in favor of blunt, brutal, everyday language and detail. He hopes that in telling his story with such honesty the world will finally come to fully comprehend the absolute horror, degradation and evil that is “priest sexual abuse.”
He hopes also that the world, Catholics in particular, will wake up to this evil and demand that the Catholic Church and its raping priests be brought to justice.
260 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 20, 2010
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July 25, 2022
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Thank you for sharing such a hard and humiliating topic. My heart breaks for you and all others that was abused so viciously by the hands of a trusted authority figure. I agree it's a horribly vile and terrible thing. Thank you for your courage and strength. I pray this book has the desired outcome and helps others.
Thank you for sharing such a hard and humiliating topic. My heart breaks for you and all others that was abused so viciously by the hands of a trusted authority figure. I agree it's a horribly vile and terrible thing. Thank you for your courage and strength. I pray this book has the desired outcome and helps others.
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