PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
When Billy Doe’s mother testified before the grand jury in 2009, she talked about finding two mysterious books under her son’s bed.
“When he went to the Christian Academy,” the mother told the grand jury, “We found books under his bed that talked about sexual abuse, and they were from a library. And I would ask him why do you have these, and he would say they were from a girl at school and they need them for a report. And they never went away, they were always there.”
“I was always digging through his room and he always had these books,” Billy’s mother told the grand jury. And we’d question him, did something happen to you, did someone touch you? And he would always say no.”
There are two possible explanations for why those books were under Billy’s bed.
To Billy Doe’s defenders, the books are evidence that back when Billy was a high school student, he was trying to come to terms with the three rapes he had endured as a Catholic altar boy and school kid.
To Billy’s detractors, however, the books show a con artist at work, doing research for a future story he would tell to bail himself out of legal jams and drug problems. They think he made the whole thing up.
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