CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant
By EDMUND H. MAHONY, emahony@courant.com
The Hartford Courant
2:33 p.m. EST, January 27, 2012
WATERBURY — A man who says a priest molested him when he was 13 years old testified Friday that the priest warned him that people would believe he was gay if he ever reported the abuse.
“When I would resist, he would say, ‘People will think you are gay if you bring this out,'” the victim said.
The victim, whose name has been withheld in court papers, appeared as a witness for another victim, identified as Jacob Doe, who is bringing the first sexual abuse complaint to go to trial against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford.
Doe and his friend, who also has a suit that claims he was molested, were best friends and students together at St. Mary’s School in Derby in the early 1980s. Both claim they were repeatedly abused by the Rev. Ivan Ferguson, who ran the diocesan school. Ferguson died in 2002.
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