Sister Sally Butler, Nun Who Blew the Whistle on Sex Abuse, Dies at 93

 

Sister Sally Butler, Nun Who Blew the Whistle on Sex Abuse, Dies at 93

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New York Times [New York NY]

October 20, 2024

By Penelope Green

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In the 1960s, she worked with priests to serve residents of housing projects in Brooklyn. Decades later, she learned that those priests had been abusing young boys.

[Photo above: Sister Sally Butler, right, in 2002 with Sister Sheila Buhse, center, and Sister Georgianna Glose. The three of them worked to expose sexual abuse at a Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn. Credit…Nancy Siesel/The New York Times]

Sister Sally Butler, a nun, social worker and activist who blew the whistle on the sexual abuse of children in the parish where she once worked, died on Oct. 6 at the residence of her order, the Sisters of St. Dominic of Amityville, in Suffolk County, N.Y. She was 93.

Her niece Kate Morris said the cause was a sudden respiratory illness.

Sister Butler was teaching high school and living in her order’s convent when she and two other nuns were…