Looking back, Elms says, he never even came close to revealing what happened to him as a young boy at Holy Family School in northwest Denver - not a breath about his father’s best friend, the priest who sexually abused him. He concealed it through two marriages, two children, nearly 10 years in the Army and jobs that took him across the globe. He thought no one would ever know what he’d kept hidden for 37 years.Įlms never told his mother or father, or any of his six siblings. Neil Elms planned to carry his biggest secret to his grave. Warning: This story contains explicit descriptions of sexual assault.
