One woman’s campaign to have a commission of inquiry into sexual offences committed by the clergy across all denominations will step up a gear on Wednesday when she hands her appeal to the office of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Dolley-Major is still a priest but stopped working for the Anglican church after she opened a criminal case.
“It’s too difficult a task for any one individual to take up and speak out against. The church cannot be allowed to be judge and jury in a process it will use to protect itself. I chose to speak out, and I have literally lost everything. Perpetrators and apologists should no longer be allowed to hide behind the mitre and the sceptre in covering up abuse“The experiences were dark and secretive and I was warned not to tell anyone ... I spent so many years after the experience blocking out the memories and only when I had a particularly bad sexual experience in my late 40s did the initial memory of the childhood abuse surface again,” Rose explained in a letter addressed to Ramaphosa, which will be attached to the memorandum.
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