Amid the high-profile child sexual abuse scandals in the United States and
other European countries, the reputation of the Roman Catholic Church in the
Netherlands has remained unsullied. A joint investigation by NRC Handelsblad
and Radio Netherlands Worldwide shows this is unjustified.
Janne Geraets, now 57, suffered repeated sexual abuse from the age of 11 at
the hands of a priest at the Roman Catholic school where he was a boarder.
His ordeal began in 1964, at the Don Rua monastery in the town of
's-Heerenberg in the east of the Netherlands.http://vorige.nrc.nl/article2493257.ece