MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) -A family member of the Madison priest accused of child sex crimes expresses anger more than a week after his arrest.

“Andrew is my cousin. We are the same age; we graduated the same year,” Brenda Coy said.

Emotions are raw for the 37-year-old.

“Absolutely disgusted, angry. I’m just taken back as a survivor of sexual assault myself and after coming out to this family,” Coy said.

She learned last week that her cousin, priest Andrew Showers is accused of child sex crimes.

“You don’t always know who someone is growing up or who they were in the past, but true colors really come out and sometimes it takes a certain instance for it to come out,” she said.

Coy said she felt a sense of relief when she heard Showers was arrested after an undercover operation where

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