'I was always told not to use his name': Woman who testified in Pennsylvania Catholic Church grand jury investigation talks about how 'freeing' it was to finally identify her alleged abuser

• Mary McHale, of Reading, Pennsylvania, talked to INSIDER about her experience testifying in front of a Pennsylvania grand jury in 2016. 
• She said that she believes the recent report on abuse at six dioceses in Pennsylvania is "just the beginning" of allegations against the Catholic Church.
• McHale says she was 17 when a priest named in the grand jury report forced her to strip down to her underwear as part of what he called a confession program in the late 1980s.

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A Catholic Church sex abuse survivor who testified in the grand jury investigation accusing hundreds of priests of preying on children has expressed how freeing it was to to finally tell her story publicly.

Mary McHale, of Reading, Pennsylvania, told INSIDER that she believes this report on abuse across six dioceses in Pennsylvania is "just the beginning" of allegations against the Catholic Church.

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