{"id":528,"date":"2011-11-18T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=528"},"modified":"2011-11-18T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:47:31","slug":"french-victim-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/french-victim-speaks-out-528.htm","title":{"rendered":"French Victim Speaks Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Solweig \u00c9ly<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

French law makes \u201ccults\u201d illegal. The behavior of some members of the Community of the Beatitudes helps explain why the French have such a law. \u00a0Marie-Claudine Chaupitre interviewed <\/a>a woman who had grown up in the community:<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Victim of Abuse, Forced to be Silent <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The sexual abuse experienced at the age of 9 years in the charismatic community where she lived with her parents, then the rejection by her family for 20 years: Solweig \u00c9ly tells her terrifying story.<\/span><\/p>\n

On November 30, at the correctional tribunal of Rodez (Aveyron), the Breton Solweig \u00c9ly will not lower her eyes in the presence of the one who, during several months, defiled her childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pierre-\u00c9tienne Albert appeared on the televised newscast of France 2<\/em> on an evening of February 2008. In the presence of his face, Solweig was overcome with nausea. This religious man, an esteemed member of the community of the Beatitudes, a Catholic charismatic movement, there made his complete confession. He was going to send the police a list of 57 names of children who were victims of his abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Solweig was part of it. \u201cAlthough a large number of us tried for a long time to forget, he imposed himself another time, brutally, on our privacy,\u201d she testified in a book that appeared today. \u201cIt had on me the effect of a new act of abuse.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything for the Community<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Every evening, between October 1989 and Easter 1990, this religious man visited the bedroom of the terrorized child. She was 9 years old and lived with her parents and her sisters at the White Abbey, at Moryan (Manche), one of the houses of the Community the Beatitudes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Families lived there side by side with religious. Solweig\u2019s father, a tax collector in <\/span>C\u00f4tes-d\u2019<\/span>Armor<\/span>,<\/span> <\/span>and his wife, had sold their possessions, given them to the Community of the Beatitudes, and dedicated their life to prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe authority of the head of the family was transferred to an official of the community. Despite my love for them, I reject that my parents put up with it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

In the strict and isolated\u00a0 context of the life of the community, the child could not confide. One evening, her father surprised Pierre-\u00c9tienne in the bedroom. He shut the door without saying anything. \u201cMy parents demanded that I smother my sorrow. In addition to the traumas inflicted by my abuser, their rejection afterwards constituted the most sorrowful trial.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Suring more than 20 years, the young women was forced to be silent – \u00a0treated as a liar, sent to boarding school with host families. \u201cYou are the rotten fruit, the door through which the devil threatens to enter into our family,\u201d her father hurled at her one day. Then the young woman started a long wandering, discolored by black ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pierre-\u00c9tienne Albert\u2019 s confession\u00a0 in the media did not give her peace. In the meanwhile she had started a family which helped her rebuild herself. She awaits two things from the hearing on November 30: \u201cTo hear that we are not at fault, but are victims. And that this man will never be allowed to harm again.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Pierre-\u00c9tienne Albert<\/em><\/p>\n

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