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8 February 2019

Texas abuse survivor says publishing names helps ‘reclaim his childhood’

Allen Hebert in 1981, the year he met Father Adrianus Johannes Willemsen, one of 22 priests named as having a credible sexual abuse allegation made against them by the Diocese of Austin Jan. 31.  Allen Hebert was 12-years-old in 1981, when he met Father Adrianus Johannes Willemsen - “Father Andy” - a Dutch priest serving in the Diocese of Austin. The priest became friends with Hebert’s family, and his parents had no suspicions about the close friendship the cleric was forming with their son.

https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2019/02/04/texas-abuse-survivor-says-publishing-names-helps-reclaim-his-childhood/