PORTRAIT. Father ‘Jefke’ presented himself as a warm, confidential figure who had a piece of candy for every student, but now he is accused of abuse | Domestic

“With his crooked alpine cap and his discolored raincoat, he shows up wherever the boys are.” Priest Rik Devillé knows that the abuse problem at St. Barbara’s College in Ghent was caused by one father: Father Jozef, nicknamed ‘Jefke’. Colleagues had nothing but praise for the father – “he could immediately tell when a student was sad” – as is evident from his In Memoriam, but all this time he had a dark secret.