The Catholic Church in Sweden has known for twenty years of claims that two young girls were sexually abused by a priest in the 1950s and 1960s, Dagens Nyheter reports.

The floodgates of honesty have only partially opened, mark my words.

In 1990 one of the two sisters, now in her sixties, contacted the former bishop of Stockholm, Hubertus Brandeburg, to inform him of the girls’ abuse at the hands of a priest. At the time the church was investigating other charges relating to the same priest, including accusations from the girls’ mother that she and the priest had a sexual relationship from 1958 to 1990.

“He became irritated and I became angry. The answer I got was pretty much, ‘we’re conducting our own investigation within the church and it’s not something we’re planning to talk about,” the woman told Dagens Nyheter.

Bishop Brandenburg died last year.