PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Several journalists at the trial shared their own interactions with now-disgraced priests. Sometimes, we discovered ties we never knew.
I won’t forget the day prosecutors called a middle-aged man as their next witness.
The reporter sitting next to me was stunned. “I know him,” he said. They had grown up together near Norristown, he explained.
Over the next 20 minutes, the witness described being abused by his parish priest, Francis Trauger, when he was 12. He said Trauger took him to St. Charles Borromeo Seminary one weekend to play basketball and molested him in the showers.
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