CALIFORNIA
News 10
[with video]
Dave Marquis
El DORADO HILLS, Calif. – Teresa Rosson claims she faced abuse by her parish priest that might have stopped years sooner had then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger acted earlier.
“He’d tell you scary stories, you know, so he could touch you,” recalled Rosson, who said her parish priest, Fr. Stephen Kiesle, began sexually abusing her at age 11 in 1972.
“He would touch my thigh, move his hand up,” Rosson said of the abuse, which she claims began when Kiesle started a relationship with her mother.
In 1981, Oakland Bishop John Cummins wrote several letters to Rome asking that Father Stephen Kiesle be tossed out of the priesthood over allegations of sexual abuse of both boys and girls.
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