Needless to say, the groping and the sexual advance were bad enough but the psychological impacts of the religious aspect of the abuse were likely far worse for someone who had lived a life of religious faith.

The government review of religious freedom is taking submissions until early February. Flick them an email expressing your concern for how religious freedoms are inevitably abused by some very terrifying people within religions to commit appalling abuses. Empowering religious parents to withhold their kids from school programs alerting students to bullying and abuse will actually result in some of those kids becoming victims like the woman in this story.