Father Dan Reehil

It's soul-crushing to be sexually abused by anybody, but when it's a representative of God's church, it just spins way out of control.

The devil comes right in and starts telling you God hates you.

He never cared about you.

Your parents hate you.

Every possible lie, and you don't know what to believe.

So I kind of spun out of control.

I'm pretty headstrong and have a strong will.

And I just decided no one's going to hurt me like that again.

Joined the football team, lifted a ton of weights for a long time to become as big as I could.

And then thinking that would be, you know, I'll be strong enough where I can defend.

And once you become a man, you kind of don't have to worry about those sort of things.

Yeah.

This priest claimed he was, you know, kind of doing spiritual retreats for the middle school guys.

And with three of us, he took on a retreat overnight.

We get there, he's got beer.

And, you know, we weren't even into beer.

It's like we're at an age where it's like, what are you doing?

And that night he sexually assaulted me.

But obviously I woke up to him on top of me and, you know, it was not pleasant.

No, I didn't go.