![]() ![]() Lorde herself was also molested by the comic bookstore owner, as well as pressured by a young boy to have sex with him. Brady’s frequent molestation of Ann and Ilene is just one example of this as Lorde describes how her annoyance was directed toward Brady's racist prejudice towards her as he kept her late to work on her Latin, not at his systemic abuse enabled by the clergy. Lorde’s childhood was marred by instances of sexual abuse directed towards her and others that she didn’t quite understand due to her youthfully naive nature. I did not care about his lechery, but I did care that he kept me in every Wednesday afternoon after school to memorize Latin nouns. ![]() His favorite pastime was holding Ann Archdeacon or Ilene Crimmons on his lap, while he played with their blonde and red curls with one hand, and slid the other hand up the back of their blue gabardine uniforms. Brady, who told my mother when she registered me that he had never expected to have to take Colored kids into his school. The head of the parish and the school was Monsignor John J. ![]()
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