PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Fox News
Published April 25, 2012
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA – A young man told a jury in a criminal priest-abuse case heard Tuesday that he was sexually assaulted as a youngster by two priests and his Catholic school teacher and that he turned to drugs for respite.
A policeman’s son, the witness said he started smoking marijuana at age 10 to deal with the abuse and has since tried drug treatment 23 times to battle addictions to heroin, painkillers and other drugs.
The 23-year-old testified at the trial of Monsignor William Lynn, a former secretary for clergy at the Philadelphia archdiocese who is charged with child endangerment for helping keep accused priests in ministry.
The witness told jurors that parish priest Edward Avery twice raped him after Mass in 1999, when he was a 10-year-old altar boy.
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