KENTUCKY
WHAS
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WHAS11.com
Posted on April 15, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) — Testimony got underway on Tuesday, April 15, in the sexual abuse trial of a former Louisville priest charged with molesting two boys in the 1970s.
This morning, one of the alleged victims was on the stand testifying against James Schook.
The prosecution called its first witness Tuesday morning, April 15. One of the alleged victims, 56-year-old Richard Whitfield took the stand describing how he met James Schook when he was a 7th grader back in the ‘70s.
Whitfield describes how he was interested in becoming a priest and Schook became a mentor figure while Schook himself was finishing seminary school and while living at Saint Rita’s Catholic Church.
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