Priest gave victim expensive gifts, asked him to call him “grandfather”

COLORADO
Colorado Connection

[with video]

by Abbie Burke

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — Court documents were released Friday detailing the sexual encounter between a Colorado Springs priest and a teenage boy.

WARNING: Some of the details are graphic.

Charles Manning, 77, turned himself into police May 22 after they issued a warrant for his arrest.

Manning was charged with sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, a class 4 felony, and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, also a class 4 felony.

Police began the investigation last year after the victim’s sister called them because she thought it wasn’t “natural” for a 76-year-old and a 15-year-old to be spending so much time together, especially alone.

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