Dossier
cycle of abuse
Coverage of cycle of abuse in the Nexus archive.
- Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults.
Lynn and Katherine, two sisters raised in the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church, were sexually abused by their brothers, who may have also been abuse victims. The sisters later perpetuated the cycle of abuse as children and adults, highlighting a generational pattern of normalized sexual abuse within the church community.