PHILADELPHIA (PA)
The New Civil Rights Movement
by David Badash on April 26, 2012
A 23-year old man testified in court Wednesday that as a 10-year old boy he was forced by a Catholic Priest to perform a strip tease in a church storage room, Reuters reports:
Wednesday’s witness testified that in 1998 when he was 10 years old and serving as an altar boy, he was abused by Rev. Charles Engelhardt and Edward Avery, who is no longer a priest, at St. Jerome’s in northeast Philadelphia. Reuters does not identify victims of sexual assault unless they come forward to identify themselves.
Avery ordered him to do a strip tease in a church storage room, he testified.
“I was swaying back and forth and took off my clothes,” he said before detailing sex acts that he said Avery demanded.
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