2023-10-24 19:54:27
Vincent Van Quickenborne, Minister of Justice until last week who became mayor of Kortrijk once more, was the victim of abuse by a priest, he declared during the Flemish talk show Gert’s “Table”. He tells how the young people at his boarding school were abused by a priest. “If you were sick, the priest came to your room and you had to take down your pants“, declared Vincent Van Quickenborne. He himself experienced it, but never denounced it. This is the first time he has spoken regarding it, he explains on the private channel Flemish Play 4.
“At the boarding school in Ghent, we talked regarding it and everyone knew regarding it. The boys asked each other if they had experienced the same thing. If he had been in their room too. But in general, that was all, it was tolerated. We didn’t tell our parents regarding it either.“, testifies former Deputy Prime Minister Open Vld.
When the Courtraisian went, with Prime Minister De Croo, to visit Rik Devillé – a priest who has been helping victims of sexual abuse in the Church for decades – to talk regarding abuse in the Church, Vincent Van Quickenborne blurted out the name of the priest in question. “Devillé immediately declared that his name appeared in his files“, he added on the television set.
The priest in question has since died, according to the former Liberal minister, who continues to assert that what he experienced in his youth has nothing to do with the terrible stories that the victims told in the documentaries of the series “Godvergeten”.
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