Editor’s note: This story contains descriptions of sexual violence against children.
Jonathan Santos sobbed in one of the stalls of a McDonald’s bathroom in Tucson, Arizona, in February.
He knew he needed to clock in for work, but he couldn’t stop the tears. He could barely even breathe.
Santos, 23, had just left the Tucson Police Department in the middle of an interview about sexual abuse he said he experienced as a child at the hands of Jose Mora, a former congregant of the Golden Dawn Tabernacle. Mora was arrested and charged in April for alleged child sex crimes. The charges stem in large part from an Arizona Daily Star/Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team investigation in which Mora publicly admitted to sexually abusing a different child .
Santos kept replaying the d