PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Beaumont Enterprise
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press
Updated 3:12 pm, Thursday, October 17, 2013
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 26-year-old accuser in the latest Philadelphia priest-abuse case has died of what his lawyer calls a suspected drug overdose.
The man’s death Sunday came days before Thursday’s scheduled preliminary hearing for the Rev. Robert Brennan of Perryville, Md.
Prosecutors must now decide whether the rape case can go forward. Brennan is free on bail.
The 75-year-old Brennan had been named in numerous complaints described in a 2005 grand jury report, but they were too old to bring to court.
The new accuser, a college graduate, came forward this year under new time limits.
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