PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
DANA DIFILIPPO & MENSAH M. DEAN, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS DIFILID@PHILLYNEWS.COM, 215-854-5934
POSTED: Friday, February 28, 2014
THE LATEST young man to accuse a Philadelphia Catholic priest of molesting him as an altar boy told a jury yesterday that the experience so badly shocked, embarrassed and debilitated him that he turned to drugs, alcohol and multiple suicide attempts before reaching his teens.
The slim man, dressed in a white shirt, black tie and slacks, emotionally spoke of being 10 years old in 1997 when the Rev. Andrew McCormick invited him to the priest’s rectory bedroom at St. John Cantius Church in Bridesburg.
McCormick undressed them both, fondled the boy, straddled his chest and tried to force his penis into his mouth, the man said on the first day of McCormick’s trial in Common Pleas Court.
“I was in shock. I couldn’t believe this was happening to me,” said the man, 26, whose identity the Daily News is not revealing.
After he refused to allow McCormick to fully insert his penis into his mouth, “he told me to get out,” testified the man, who said he recalled that the priest never fully took off his plaid boxer shorts.
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