LA sex abuse victims see a changed Church amid settlement news
All it took was one day, one act of abuse by a priest to send Deborah McAlpine’s life spiraling.
She was in high school when she was molested by a visiting priest after a Saturday night charismatic Mass at a parish in Norwalk in the early 1970s.
The abuse haunted McAlpine for years. She quickly lost interest in school. She ran away from home, only returning when her mother gave assurances she wouldn’t be forced to attend church. She sought relief from the pain in drugs and alcohol. She went more than 20 years without going to Mass.