UNITED KINGDOM
Birmingham Mail
An elderly priest has been given a police caution after lewd behaviour in a Birmingham shopping centre toilet.
Sixty-eight year-old Father Pat Costello is said to have approached a 17-year-old youth in a bathroom and made lewd comments before stroking him on the shoulder last Wednesday.
He was quickly arrested after security staff at the centre called for the police.
Costello, an Irish priest in the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, said he had behaved “shamefully” in a “moment of madness”.
Now his biggest concern is that his family will suffer because of his “terrible” actions. “I am prepared to accept all the consequences of my action and any punishment including losing my priestly ministry,” he reportedly said.
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