Michelle boorstein bio
Michelle Boorstein has been a religion reporter since She has covered the shifting blend of religion and politics under four U.S. presidents....
BALTIMORE (MD)
Washington Post
April 10, 2023
By Michelle Boorstein
While the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal erupted decades ago, details in official investigative reports are incredibly powerful for survivors
Since the 1990s, when Jean Wehner started to remember the “sexual torture” she endured as a Catholic high school student, she has sued the Baltimore Archdiocese, written a memoir and appeared in a Netflixdocumentary about her abuse.
But the release last week of a Maryland attorney general’s report citing decades worth ofinternal church records about her abuser — it all brought a kind of bitter validation, Wehner says, to that terrified little girl.
“I’m my own worst detective as an adult.
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I was taught by my faith system to be a good girl, not to lie, not to believe something that isn’t true. I’m always still doubting myself and dissecting everything and challenging myself,” said Wehner, 69, now a wellness practitioner in Elkridge.
“This puts the detect