David Schappelle was only 9 in 1986. That year he was raped by Fr. Wayland Brown at his family’s St. Rose of Lima Catholic parish picnic. Brown was, unbeknownst to parishioners, a serial pedophile from the Savannah Archdiocese who was in Maryland while he received “treatment” for his predatory behavior at St. Luke’s Institute.
Steve Kelly is a lawyer who has committed his professional career to representing victims and survivors of crime. Now a partner with the law firm of Grant & Eisenhofer, he explains the horrific story of how his journey began.
As Christopher ‘Kit’ Bateman shares in the latest episode of Survivors Stories, his upbeat persona masked unimaginable emotional pain caused in the 1970s by a serial sexual predator-priest at the school who molested him during Confession in the school chapel’s confessional. He was 14 at the time.
Kurt Rupprecht tells the horrific story of his childhood abuse, how he is impacted to this day, and his commitment to making sure that others are not similarly hurt.
Carolyn Surrick, of Annapolis, Maryland, will never forget what it was like when her school “failed” her, enabling two predator-teachers that groomed and raped her as a 7th and 8th grader.
Donna Von Den Bosch bravely comes forward to tell her story of horrific abuse at the hands of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Debra Rhodes became clean and sober and recognized that addiction was directly tied to an early childhood on Long Island that was shattered by sexual abuse.
Frank Schindler is a survivor of sexual abuse by the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He courageously comes forward to tell his story here.
Mary Beth Diaz is the daughter of a clergy abuse survivor. Hear Mary Beth tell her mother's agonizing story, and how that affected the family growing up.
Gemma Hoskins, 70, started the investigation that inspired the nationally acclaimed 2017 Netflix true crime docuseries, The Keepers, about the murder of a Catholic nun in Baltimore in 1969.