'This Should Not Have Happened to a Child'

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Two decades after he was abused by a Catholic priest, Mark Dixon is still waiting for the Catholic church to acknowledge his pain. In the second of two articles, he tells Chris Lloyd how he confronted his past

'I WOULD kill him, " says Mark Dixon coldly, referring to the priest who sexually abused him years before he was in his teens.

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'This Should Not Have Happened to a Child'

While telling in shocking detail what he suffered at the hands of Father David Taylor, the youth chaplain of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle in the early Eighties, Mark, now 38, has appeared calm, recalling without hyperbole events from 25 years earlier that to this day remain vividly with him.

How, as an altar boy at St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in ...

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