Deliver Us from Evil Page #2

I said, you know,

"Sometimes I get carsick on the road. "

He said, "Put your head on my lap,"

and, boom, the abuse started.

I mean, I was on Highway 12,

you know, two minutes

away from my house, and it started.

And for 96 hours, that abuse

was happening until my parents came

and said, "Did you have fun with Father?"

And I'm, like, "He tickled me too much. "

How do you tell your parents

what you just went through?

They finally got it out of her that,

during the night,

Ollie had come into her room

and had molested her.

I think I tried

to be affectionate with her

by kissing her on the mouth.

And I know that

my hand went down,

and I think I brought up

her night dress

and tried to...

not tried to, I did touch her

in the genital area,

perhaps outside her clothing at first

and maybe, although I can't be specific,

I think I probably tried

to put my hand inside her underwear,

and I think that's about

the time I realized that...

it was not correct to continue,

and, although I'm not...

paraphrasing exactly

what I remember I did,

but I think I want to say

that I stopped shortly afterwards

and...

left the bed,

left the room,

and went back to my own bed.

Case said, "Have you

ever done this before?"

And, "No. "

And... So he told him.

He said, "Ollie, this is outrageous.

"This is the very type of thing

"that people can go to prison for.

I want you to sit down

and write a letter of apology. "

I took, you know, the occasion

to write my letter to the victim,

and to say,

"Hey, I'm sorry. "

"May I say first of all

"that this is a difficult letter

for me to write.

"I have come

to like Nancy very much

"and wanted to express my friendship

and love for her

"by having her come stay with me.

"I also must admit

"that I feel very affectionate towards Nancy,

"as I am sure I have

displayed many times,

"even in your presence.

"Now comes the difficult part.

"Did I touch Nancy in areas

which I shouldn't have?

"I have to admit that I did

on a few occasions.

"I guess I became overly affectionate,

"and took advantage of the situation

"and went a little too far.

"I have already written

for an appointment with my bishop.

"I realize the big responsibility

I have as a priest,

"and the high ideals

which I must uphold.

"But I am also painfully aware

of my own weakness,

"and how hard it is at times

"to keep the ideals of priesthood

"in front of me...

"when temptations

to satisfy one's own ego

present themselves. "

He said, "You need to know

I've already called Bishop Guilfoyle,"

who was the bishop at the time,

and...

"As soon as our talk is finished here,

you're getting right in the car. "

I mean, my mother says

that when she was having

the meeting with Guilfoyle,

he was completely saying,

"Oh, I'm sure Nancy just

misunderstood his actions.

"I'm sure she...

what she says happened

really didn't happen. "

Even though Oliver had

already made an appointment,

Guilfoyle had already talked

to Case DeGroot about it.

My mom's having this meeting,

and he's saying, "Oh, I'm sure

nothing really happened,"

blah, blah, blah.

My mom pulls out this letter,

and she said his face went beet-red.

He was furious because of the letter.

Why was he angry about that?

For legal reasons, I'm sure.

Of the, you know...

I think he was anxious

that the letter be destroyed

or in some way...

disappear.

Case wanted to make sure

that Ollie was going to be

getting counseling for this,

but when he inquired,

the bishop felt that...

he had done his part,

he had brought him down,

and, in essence,

his part was over,

and he should not continue

to be a part of this.

I remember saying

one time to Case...

we were driving somewhere,

and Ollie's name came up

for one or another reason:

What he does on his day off, you know,

and...

when I said, "Well, you know,

he sleeps over at Maria's house,"

and I could see

he got so, like, nervous,

but he didn't say anything to me.

The reasons we asked him

to stay overnight sometimes

is because the church can be hectic,

and, like, a priest

can be on 24-hour duty

because parishioners

may need help,

and it was kind of like a relief

to get away from work.

The duties that a priest

has to perform

shouldn't take up all his time.

And I do remember

one time, I think...

And that was his answer

to non-married priests.

- In other religions they're married.

- Yeah.

It would be so much

easier to help people

in the Catholic religion...

'Cause you know

what a family's like.

...if they had a family of their own,

and he used to say

he couldn't do that.

He couldn't do both.

Yeah, 'cause of the work

with the church

that, you know,

what he says is dedication

to the Church, you know.

You have to have celibacy

because you can't give...

But I says, "How do you know

how a family functions?"

And he would say,

"Well, by education, school. "

You know, looking back

at it now in reflection,

it's more like a power trip

that he would have us robe him,

like he was a deity, you know?

Like he was the king

or something, you know?

He would call us

out of class, you know.

He had total control of us

'cause he was at our school,

he was at our home,

he was at church.

In a Catholic lifestyle,

what else is left after that?

What part of my life wasn't he at?

L... Absolutely, you know.

I mean, there's an awful lot of my areas

that I was ill-equipped

to handle, you know.

Counseling would be one of them.

If I were back in,

I'd never counsel people,

unless I took training

in it, you know.

Because apparently I wasn't

able to spot the differences,

spot the elements that...

There were danger signals

That a therapist, you know,

would know to say,

"Oh, there's transference here,"

you know.

This person is not alone,

coming to me once a week.

This person is calling me

on the phone twice a day.

This person is calling me on the phone

about things that are

insignificant right now.

"My God, what do I have

for dinner?"

Whatever you like.

Why are you calling me?

You've had dinner before.

You'll have dinner again.

But, you know,

what was there about me

that kind of said

"You can call me,"

you know?

This was somebody

that we knew for 23 years,

totally trusted.

We trusted him because...

And now, you know,

I hear, you know,

things he did with other families,

and...

I just feel...

I never saw that side of him.

You know, we were supporting him

up to the very, very end,

'cause he was...

he was the perfect...

example of what you would think

a priest would be

when he was here in our house.

I mean, he was always respectful.

He was... Anything that I saw

with him with the kids,

he was fine.

He would stay here.

I mean, you'd see him

in here in the morning

reading his Bible.

He was everything that I...

I'd go to work and...

He was the closest

thing to God that we knew.

Being Catholic is...

not like being a Lutheran

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