CALIFORNIA
Santa Cruz Sentinel
By VIRGINIA HENNESSEY
Herald Staff Writer
montereyherald.com
Posted: 03/27/2013
A former Palma High School chaplain and teacher has admitted in sworn testimony that he sexually assaulted a Palma student.
In a videotaped deposition, the Rev. Gerald Funcheon claimed he molested just one student at Palma and that the boy was his last. The redacted video does not include the names of any of the priest’s alleged victims.
Five men have leveled claims that Funcheon molested them when they were students at the school during the Crosier priest’s tenure from 1984 to 1985.
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