PHILADELPHIA (PA)
The Republic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
January 28, 2013
PHILADELPHIA — Jurors in a church-abuse case in Philadelphia have gone home Monday without a verdict, but first asked about a missing trial witness.
The jury wants to know why the accuser’s brother did not testify as planned for the defense.
The accuser, a 24-year-old policeman’s son, says two Roman Catholic priests and his sixth-grade teacher raped him, starting at age 10. He blames the abuse for his descent heroin addiction.
He testified that he first tried drugs at age 11 when his brother took him to a party.
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