HAWAII
The Republic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 21, 2013
HONOLULU — A priest who taught in a Honolulu school in the early 1980s has admitted in a videotaped sworn statement that he engaged in sexual conduct with teenagers.
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser (http://is.gd/ILeAL2) says the Rev. Gerald Funcheon provided the videotaped deposition in response to questions related to civil lawsuits accusing him of molestation.
According to the Star-Advertiser, Funcheon said in the deposition that he did not consider his attraction to youths perverted or abnormal.
Portions of the deposition were played Wednesday at a news conference held by plaintiff’s attorney Jeff Anderson. His Minnesota-based law firm represents three former Damien Memorial School students who have filed civil lawsuits in state court in Hawaii. They allege that Funcheon sexually molesting them from 1982 to 1984.
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