<p>This episode includes a disturbing account about a series of sexual assaults of a 12-year-old girl, in the year 1981, by a then-45-year-old Catholic priest from Springfield, Massachusetts named Charles Sullivan. This episode is not suitable for kids or the extremely sensitive.</p><br><p>Episode 16 of <em>Unholy Fathers </em>features the voice of a woman I’m calling Cee to protect her anonymity. Cee is a very sweet person. She’s in her mid 50s, and has worked in the corrections sector in western Massachusetts ever since she graduated Cathedral High School back in 1987.</p><br><p>In today’s episode, based upon a conversation that she and I had last month, you’ll learn a lot about Cee and what happened with Father Charles Sullivan. </p><br><p>Next week, in Part Two, you’ll hear about how we became pals and how together we teamed up and were able to get long-delayed justice and a financial settlement from the Diocese of Springfield to make good on my friend’s bad experiences at the hands of the now-dead Charles Sullivan, whom I profiled in episode four of&nbsp;<em>Unholy Fathers</em>.</p><br><p>First to set this horrible scene. We go back in time to 1981 to when Cee was a seventh grader at St. Matthew’s School in the Indian Orchard neighborhood of Springfield, Massachusetts. At the time, I was in the eighth grade at St. Matthew’s, and while I wasn’t friends with Cee, I was aware of her. Relatively speaking, she was a new girl, this being only her second year at the school. </p><br><p>To read a complete transcript -- proofread by a human -- visit crashbarry.com.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>