A dismissed Catholic nun, Rev. Sr. Anastasia Kinse, has dropped a bombshell, alleging that she was sexually harassed by priests and has both video and audio recordings to back her claims.
Speaking on Arise Television’s Prime Time programme, the former nun of the Auchi Catholic Diocese said her dismissal from Veritas University in Abuja was punishment for exposing what she described as “sexual rot” inside the Church.
“I find it very funny when I was asked for evidence, but in our world today, imagine me coming out, calling names and talking doesn’t make any sense,” she said.
“It’s not as if the evidence that I was s3xually harassed by a priest do not exist, they do, but I cannot put them out there. I have a video and an audio recording that shows where the Veritas HOD harassed me.”
Anastasia, who joined the Congregation of Mother of Perpetual Help of the Archangels Sisters in 2015, said she repeatedly reported disturbing encounters with priests to her Superior-General and Bishop — but instead of getting help, she was labelled a troublemaker.
“The issue has been that I was always complaining, according to them. First, I wrote to the bishop that the priest was always shouting at me whenever I came to the office to talk to him,” she recalled.
“I told my superior about a priest I was living in the same compound with, that on a fateful day I went into his room and he tried to touch me and I don’t just understand if that’s a norm and my superior told me to ignore him.”
She further claimed one priest invited her to spend a week with him in his parish, while another wrapped his belt around her waist under the guise of measuring her size.
“There was a priest in 2016 that said I should go with him in his car to his parish for a week and I felt that shouldn’t happen. And another priest put his belt on my waist trying to check the size of the clothes he would get me when I visit him, and that broke me, gave me a lot of trauma which is what they termed madness,” she said.
