‘A ticking time bomb’: Timor-Leste begins to reckon with alleged Catholic church sex abuse
by Zevonia Vieira in Dili and Tjitske Lingsma from on (#5J59Z)
The trial of defrocked priest Richard Daschbach, charged with sexual abuse of 14 girls, is dividing the small, deeply Catholic country
Lita grew up in a poor family in a hamlet surrounded by the spectacular mountains of Oecusse in Timor-Leste. When she was 11 years old she went to live in Topu Honis shelter home, in the mountainous, forest-encircled village of Kutet.
The shelter was run by Richard Daschbach, a now-defrocked 84-year-old US priest who founded the facility in 1992.
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