PHILADELPHIA (PA)
TheMediaReport
Dave Pierre
The primary accuser in this week’s high-profile criminal abuse trial in Philadelphia has a lengthy criminal record of fraud and deceit, including an alarming episode in which he fabricated an elaborate tale to the police about a violent home robbery that never occurred. Meanwhile, the media is largely ignoring the accuser’s background and is continuing instead to uncritically trumpet the prosecution’s salacious allegations of abuse.
In 2005, Mark Bukowski came forward with the shocking charge that Rev. James Brennan had raped him nine years earlier, in 1996, when Bukowski was reportedly 14 years old. Since that time, the media has breathlessly reported Bukowski’s allegations with scant interest in the accuser’s background. (Note: Bukowski has allowed his name to be made public – it’s in the grand jury report – although media outlets have chosen not to reveal it.)
Meanwhile, Bukowski has committed multiple and serious crimes in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that date both before and after the 2005 rape accusation against Fr. Brennan that call into question Bukowski’s veracity.
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