WEST VIRGINIA
News and Sentinel
April 21, 2012
By JOHN McCABE , The Wheeling Intelligencer
WHEELING – Monsignor Kevin Quirk, an aide to the Most Rev. Michael J. Bransfield, bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, will testify in the clergy sex abuse trial currently under way in Philadelphia, a judge has ruled.
Ohio County Circuit Judge Ronald Wilson issued the four-page ruling late Thursday. He said Quirk “is a material witness and that his live testimony at this trial, where he will be subject to direct and cross examination, is essential to ascertaining the truth.”
Wheeling attorney William Kolibash, who is representing Quirk, confirmed his client will now testify in the case of the Rev. James Brennan, who’s on trial in Philadelphia for an alleged 1996 child-sex assault. Brennan has denied those charges.
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