Child Molesters' Spouses Can Be Victims, Too ; Resources Specifically Designed to Help Partners of Abusers Are Scarce in Maine, but They Do Exist.
Portland Press Herald › June 05, 2006
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When someone molests a child, the life of that boy or girl is changed forever. Charli Spearrin, who was sexually abused at the age of 4, knows all about that. But she also realizes that it's not just the victim of sexual abuse who suffers.
Decades later, Spearrin and her husband, David Hurst, were pastors at the Church of God in Pittsfield in the late 1990s when she was victimized again: Hurst was arrested and charged with performing oral sex on a 13-year-old boy at their residence, next to the church.See the full content of this document
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Child Molesters' Spouses Can Be Victims, Too ; Resources Specifically Designed to Help Partners of Abusers Are Scarce in Maine, but They Do Exist.
Spearrin was away at the time, visiting her son and her daughter- in-law, who was having a baby in Tennessee.
"I walked back into a hornet's nest," Spearrin said. "My first reaction was, I didn't believe it....See the full content of this document
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