Your John Smyth was My Father Hooper

/// IN MEMORIAM GUIDE NYACHURU
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"In 1992, a 16-year-old boy named Guide Nyachuru was found dead, drowned naked in a pool. His body was bruised from one of Smyth’s beatings."

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The problem is not confined to the Anglican Communion.

John Smyth was only one of many boy abusers. The problem is endemic to modern Western Institutional Christendom and transcends just one church.

Between the ages of 16 and 18 (1991 to 1993) I was involved in a sordid relationship with a certain Father Hooper who subjected me, under psychological manipulation & subtle blackmail, to sadist sexual practises: spankings, anilingus, fellatio and sodomy.

When I saw the news reports, about John Smyth, I immediately recalled "the happy memories" of my high school years extra-curricular activities.