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	Diocese Accused in 2 Kids' Rape Horror By Kieran Crowley New York Post April 17, 2007 http://www.nypost.com/seven/04172007/news/regionalnews/diocese_accused_in_2_kids_rape_horror_regionalnews_kieran_crowley.htm April 17, 2007 — A 15-year-old boy and girl were raped and sodomized in a Long Island parish by a predator allowed by the Catholic Church to prey on children, a lawyer for the alleged victims said in his opening yesterday. Lawyer Michael Dowd told a Mineola jury that Matthew Maiello, a lay youth minister at St. Raphael's Church in East Meadow, ordered the teens to have sex with each other and himself and videotaped the acts - a shocking exhibit that will be shown to the jury. The lawyer said the Rockville Centre Diocese was negligent in failing to investigate Maiello's background, which included molestations at another parish. Worse, claimed Dowd, the church allegedly ignored several red flags that Maiello was acting inappropriately with teens and molested four of them - including the two who filed the civil suit seeking $150 million. "The question here is not so much about Matthew Maiello - the sex predator, the beast," Dowd said. "The question today is, who let the beast loose?"
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