MINNESOTA
Daily Mail (UK)
By HELEN POW
A Minneapolis priest sent at least 19 ‘seductive’ emails confessing his love to a teenage girl who he was allegedly sexually abusing for a period of three years a decade-and-a-half ago.
The victim, who was 13 when the alleged abuse started and is in her late 20s now, filed a lawsuit against Reverend Michael Jerome Keating Monday claiming ‘dealing with what he did to me is an hourly battle.’
She alleges he fondled her breasts, made her lie on top of him while he was aroused, woke her in the middle of the night to ask for a back rub and french kissed her.
In the deeply personal emails, made public today by the girl’s lawyer, Keating expressed love and affection for the girl, regularly signing off ‘love you lots and lots’ and warning her that she will be popular with the boys because she was ‘pretty and charming.’
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