• This is how a teacher abused me. And why I’m speaking out to help other victims

    I lived with the shame for years until the Truth Project let me tell my story, and empowered me to call for healing and justiceThe abuse I experienced as a child has reverberated throughout my life. I didn’t allow anybody to touch me, beyond a handshake or a peck on the cheek, for 15 years. It planted in me the sense that everything to do with sex or my body was wrong. I was an aberration, not a proper man. I put off speaking openly about the abuse because I was paralysed by this shame. Bu

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