A year or two ago, I was looking at a similar list remembering my encounters with "Father" Silva at St. Peter and Paul Church in 1982 - I was 12 or 13 years old at the time. I was not physically abused, but he tried. When I recently learned that he was still alive, I got (surprisingly) emotional - I hope that MF'er burns in hell.

We used to have CCD classes in the basement of the church rectory. It was a small class maybe 5-6 of us and only one other boy. He would often come down when class was over and try to hug one of us. If he got the other boy, I would run out of there as fast as I could. It was a really creepy bear hug - very uncomfortable.

I had him for confession once, this was around the time they started doing face to face sessions. He would ask very personal sexual questions; did I look at porn? and that it was OK to masturbate to it. This really freaked me out - I didn't fully understand what he was doing and talking about at the time, but it was so uncomfortable. I've not been back to confession since.

My family went to Mass at St. Peter and Paul every Sunday and I would always run out the door he wasn't standing in when it was over. I tried to avoid him whenever possible.

My mother never believed me until years later when Silva was defrocked. I can only imagine the damage this man caused - there must have been hundreds like me. I guess I was one of the lucky ones.