MICHIGAN
Observer & Eccentric
Catholic priest Timothy Murray was never prosecuted for sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy in the mid-1980s. But as the onetime Catholic parish pastor awaited sentencing today on child pornography charges, a federal prosecutor argued that it was finally time for Murray to pay for his assault on childhood innocence.
U.S. Assistant Attorney Kevin Mulcahy described Murray’s assault on the teenager and gestured toward a grown man in the courtroom, whom Mulcahy acknowledged was Murray’s long-ago victim. The man, who was not identified, had also written to U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts about the assault, which Murray has admitted. Mulcahy asked the judge to consider that when sentencing Murray for possessing and sharing nearly 700 child porn videos on his home computers.
“The character of a man who could sit and watch children suffer” in child pornography, said Mulcahy, “is disgusting.”
The priest went “largely unscathed” from his behavior, said Mulcahy, “and deserves no further break.”
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