"They thought they were smarter than us," recounts one woman whose hands are gnarled by arthritis.

A woman recounts tearfully her treatment at the hands of a priest who "liked little girls."

At least a few women would recount memories of being sexually molested as children.

"They blindfolded me and my son and tied us to chairs," the 51-year-old woman recounted last week through an interpreter.

During the hearing, the six women recounted how he had made various unwanted sexual advances, taking advantage of his influential position.

One woman recounted how she pleaded with them not to shoot but to no avail.

In many interviews, women recounted vicious rapes by members of the Arab militias.

"I seen him, you know," the woman recounted.

The woman recounted how, after several attacks, she had moved out of New York.

"We washed ourselves as if it could wash away all that had happened to us," one woman recounted.