Confessions of Priest Who Molested 17 Boys Released

CALIFORNIA
ABC News

[Read Robert Van Handel’s Sexual History]

By COLLEEN CURRY

In the essay, Van Handel, now 65 and a registered sex offender in Santa Cruz County, describes wrestling, tickling, and fondling young boys whom he invited to attend one-on-one choir practices, admits to molesting high school boys at a seminary where he taught, and says he took pictures of young boys wearing few clothes or showering.

“It was clearly my choir and the fulfillment of my fondest dreams,” he wrote. “Now I understand that it was also a constant supply of attractive little boys.”

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