FROM JACQUELINE:

I am proud and gratified to announce that my collaboration with Patricia A. Cahill has resulted in the completion of her two vitally important memoirs. In December 2019, Albuquerque filmmaker Lynn Mathews recommended me to Trish as a Developmental Editor. At first, Trish (aka Pkhill on Facebook) was hesitant to tell me the depth of her story, a bit suspicious of my interest in listening to a story she had withheld fully for so long, and my nonjudgmental offer without conditions-unbiased and nonjudgmental-to work with her. That afternoon, as I sat at my kitchen table in Albuquerque, I listened to a complete stranger in Pennsylvania share her life story with me, a life I could not have otherwise imagined.

Trish spent her childhood years keeping the filthy secret of Father Daniel Francis Marks Millard. As a teenager, she became emotionally, mentally, and physically sicker and more vulnerable with each passing year due to the sexual grooming, drugging, and abuse by Sister Eileen Shaw and by their religious communities while members of her own family knew and ignored what was happening to her.

Since our first phone call when she hesitantly described for me the horrific experiences she suffered at the design and will of respected and well-known individuals, I have been in awe of her bravery, strength and passion to tell her story, in the belief it will educate the public, empower survivors and protect children before the devastation of the first sexual touch.

With the completion of Book I-A Child’s Story: Uncle, Priest, Pedophile and Book II-A Woman’s Story: Groomed by a Nun, Trish and I hope to find an agent who grasps the extent-both personal and institutional-of the violation of the law and of humanity and will represent/publish a book with detailed descriptions of the systemic depravity and intentional cruelty of organizational brainwashing that hides criminal sexual behaviors from society and legal consequences. An agent who grasps the depth of the injuries committed below the headlines as described in the book’s chapters.

FROM TRISH:

I am proud to announce that my collaboration with Jacqueline Murray Loring, screenwriter, author, ghostwriter, and editor, resulted in the completion of my memoir. Our first phone call took place in December 2019. Previously, I had worked with two other editors but it was Jacqueline’s support as a developmental editor that brought the memoir to fruition. In my daily Facebook posts on Pkhill, I have referred to her only as my editor but, now we have agreed to celebrate our collaboration with you, the followers of Pkhill, with a joint announcement.

My memoir, which has evolved into two separate books that are tentatively titled: Book I–A Child’s Story: Uncle, Priest, Pedophile and Book II–A Woman’s Story: Groomed by a Nun.

I’m feeling grateful for all the people who have supported me throughout this part of my journey. I am seeking an exceptional, intelligent, and passionate agent who will represent my story in a respectful and truthful manner.

It is essential for my healing to tell my story #voiceforthevoiceless but, at the same time I am also determined to alert the public that regardless of what the headlines say about the holiness and compassion that exists in organized religion, the fact remains, that most survivors were denied restorative justice or adequate therapy by the very institution, the Catholic Church, who caused their life-long trauma.

Book I and Book II will inspire and empower survivors and encourage them to share without shame their stories of childhood sexual abuse and the life-altering effects of re-victimization by the church hierarchy, the legal system, and the families of the victim/survivors. Parents, teachers, clergy, medical professionals, and all child caretakers who read these two books will learn the signs of sexual grooming and recognize those signs so they can protect children before the devastation of the first touch.