PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
BY JOHN P. MARTIN
Inquirer Staff Writer
HIS WAS the typical Philadelphia Catholic family, the witness said. Mom and Dad were regulars at Mass. He and his sister helped out at the rectory. And they held no one in higher esteem than a priest.
“We were raised with the belief that a priest never did anything wrong,” he told a Common Pleas jury.
In that sense, the man, now 45 and a priest himself, echoed other alleged abuse victims at the landmark conspiracy and child-sex abuse trial for two Archdiocese of Philadelphia priests. But as the trial entered a fourth week Monday, he offered a deeper account.
He detailed how the Rev. Stanley Gana first raped him when he was 13 and testified that after he became a priest, he spent a decade trying to get church officials to remove Gana.
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