Shocking complaint: Priest raped me to “cure” me of homosexuality

It took her decades to speak publicly about the crime against her.

The pastor of the parish he was in a hurry trying to save her from her homosexual tendencies.

Shocking complaint: Priest raped me to “cure” me of homosexuality

Angela Paterson recently stepped down from anonymity to talk about the scary reversal therapy, of which he fell victim.

“I will never forget,” he says, “we were in church. He told me ” do you know something? I can help you with your sexuality. I can cure you ” “.

Paterson was 19 years old and knew for years that she was a lesbian. But she was also a devout Christian and had learned that homosexuality was a crime, her faith forced her to change.

Pastor Max Donald, in a parish in West Sussex, England, knew her from the age of 14. She had been taught to speak to him since she was a child, so the priest knew about the battle he was waging with his sexual identity, but also the sexual abuse who had suffered as a child.

In other words, he knew how fragile her psyche was, but that did not stop him. At 19, Paterson was unemployed and homeless for a while and the priest was willing to help her.

He brought her to live in his house in 1990, with his wife next to him. For the next 4 years he would become a slave to his impulses, as he says.

“When I woke up, he was there. It was not… there was no consensus… I had no choice. “She had so much power,” the 49-year-old woman said today.

Paterson now has a stable affair with a woman and works in a homeless shelter in north London.

But she always remembers the pastor’s efforts to make her “good”, that is, heterosexual. “It was rape. When I realized it was just that, it was catastrophic. “