he was eight years old when he was taken to the muskowekwan school.ool, and when he tried to run away, he says the priests forced him to kneel on a broom handle for three days. >> bitternose: that's where my house was. i would sit here and wonder why i couldn't be home. >> cooper: that must have been devastating. >> bitternose: yeah. >> cooper: it wasn't only adults he feared. some students, themselves victims of abuse, preyed on other children. >> cooper: were you abused here? >> bitternose: yeah, mm-hmm. actually, in this room here, by one of the-- one of the-- one of the boys. >> cooper: in this very room? >> bitternose: this very area here. >> cooper: later, he says, he was also sexually molested by a nun. when he left school, he was rudderless and violent, and turned to alcohol. when he got married, he says, he didn't know how to show affection. you didn't know what love was? >> bitternose: no. no. because i never felt it here. i didn't start saying i loved her till we were married about 40 years, and then i was very careful how i said it. >> coo