PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Lebanon Daily News
By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press
Updated: 04/30/2012
PHILADELPHIA—The judge in an internal Catholic church trial says a man accusing a priest of sexual assault once changed his story.
Monsignor Kevin Quirk, a canon lawyer now in West Virginia, testified Monday in the Rev. James Brennan’s criminal priest-abuse trial in Philadelphia.
Quirk presided over the 2008 church trial. He detailed allegations that Brennan sexually assaulted a 14-year-old during a 1996 sleepover at the priest’s apartment.
On cross-examination, Quirk said he never delved into the man’s second allegation because the accuser withdrew that complaint.
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