Nuns told how two priests mistreated them

The public admission of Pope Francis that priests and bishops had treated nuns as "bad slaves" for decades marks a new chapter in the crisis of badual abuse that plagues the Catholic Church. In this scenario, two former novices were interviewed by the BBC to tell the first person the attacks they suffered.

In the BBC Radio 's Woman' s Hour show, they interviewed two former nuns about the attacks they suffered during their stay in the Catholic Church. Rocío Figueroa, a Peruvian theologian residing in New Zealand, explained that she had joined religious life in adolescence because she lived in a very poor area and needed to "do something".

It is there that he was the victim of badual abuse at the hands of a parish priest. "I was 15. I was very naive, I had no previous experience." He started to touch me and I thought (wrongly) that it was good and that I was the bad guy, I felt guilty and disoriented, "he continued. "He never raped me, but he mistreated me, I could not report it until I was 40," he added.

Meanwhile, Germany's Doris Wagner-Reisinger said: "Five years after entering the seminary, a priest from the congregation began to approach each time I saw myself alone. My room and I stayed there to talk and over time he started to take me in his arms, then he came and, without telling me anything, he undressed me and started to rape me. "

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