Raised in a devout Catholic family, I was taught to view the Church as a moral sanctuary. That faith was shattered when I was sexually abused by a priest as a young child.

In Killers of Innocence, I recount not only the trauma of the abuse but the devastating culture of silence and clerical elitism that protected the perpetrator over the victim.

Beginning in the mid-1960s under a young Father Roger Mahony — who would later oversee one of the largest clergy abuse scandals in history — this systemic cover-up fractured my family and forced religious figures to choose between institutional loyalty and human
suffering.

Written with raw honesty and clarity, I explore the lifelong
psychological aftermath of institutional betrayal, offering both a haunting testimony and a vital warning about the enduring power of truth.