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'A HABIT BEHIND THE HABIT' |
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“A HABIT BEHIND THE HABIT”
1. This is a true-life story about graphic sexual abuse by a Catholic nun, on a Catholic female minor. I am in my mid 50s now. The abuse happened in the early 70s in South Asia, by a South Asian nun posted at a Catholic Boarding-home where I was. She is still alive and living in India.
2. The disgrace, pain, and emotional scars brought upon my person by Sister X is irreparable. It includes my renouncing Catholicism, converting to Islam and foregoing my birth name so as to conceal, what I then truly believed, was a life of immense shame. I was convinced I was no longer a virgin, which is the highest taboo in an Islamic society. The shame led me to run away from home as soon as soon as I was 21 years of age, and an adult by Cannon Law standards. Running away earlier had huge consequences.
3. Innocence lost, is never regained: for this I will always hate Sister X and her governing authorities. Even when I first married I had serious self esteem issues, which led to insecurities throughout my marital relations. The abuse changed my entire outlook on life, and left me critical and untrusting of most males or females that crossed my path, however genuine they may have been.
4. The abuse happened in a country where Islam is the major religion and Christians are in the minority. Upon conversion, I was the laughing stock of the Catholic community, ridiculed for renouncing Catholicism. As a Catholic convert, I was ridiculed by my in-laws, which marriage resulted in divorce after 10 years. I remained a single mother for about 10 years before I ever remarried. I raised 2 sons under some very challenging circumstances. I now have 6 grandkids (and ours is now a very much an inter-faith family).
5. Changing my birth name was not easy for me. Even to date, in the course of legal and civil transactions, the question of my birth name-change comes up, and I am still most disturbed by it. As part of the healing process, I have recently legally reverted to my birth name in Canada.
6. About 2 years ago I started broaching this subject, and faced the demons. I communicated with the Head of the institution in Rome to which the perpetrator nun still belonged. I wrote to a Diocese in VA, and I also communicated with the right hand man of the Holy Pope in the Vatican. I was made an offer in Canada, which was like a slap on my face. I REJECTED that offer for I believe that no one can or should, put a price tag on my dignity.
7. This nun changed the course of my life, and my mental well being, and yet she sits as a ‘respectable’ nun in some religious young-females Home in India, assigned to house-duties, that is after I demanded she be kept away from young girls.
8. I tried to find justice in my own country, the country where the abuse happened in the 70s. Low and behold, some connivance took place there to suppress the matter, and a Court case I intended to file did not materialize so far.
9. I would like to offer this story to Hollywood and others interested. I have the proof of the abuse by way of written admission. I have the letters written by the religious order concerned. I did not sign any confidentiality agreement, nor took any offer: This is my life story of abuse by a religious person, a person in a position of trust, and I would like to tell it to the world, before I die.
(Note: This idea for a movie is duly registered with the WGA Intellectual Property Registry, USA)
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Last update: 23-02-2012 14:18 |
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