Priest Admitted Letting Teen Watch Porn, Sharing Bed with Him

By John P. Martin and Joseph A. Slobdzian
Philadelphia Inquirer
April 30, 2012

http://articles.philly.com/2012-04-30/news/31498537_1_william-j-brennan-canonical-trial-priest

The Rev. James J. Brennan told church investigators four years ago that he let a 14-year-old boy view online pornography and share his bed in 1996 but denied that he touched the teen or exposed himself, according to documents revealed Monday at his landmark clergy sex-abuse trial.

Brennan told his interrogators at a 2008 canonical proceeding that his decision to let the boy view the images and sleep next to him that night was “borderline” inappropriate. Still, he said he was blindsided when the young man came forward after a decade and accused him of sexual assault.