PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Big Trial
By Ralph Cipriano
for Bigtrial.net
In court nearly two years ago, Leo Omar Hernandez was the only witness who could corroborate any part of Billy Doe’s wildly improbable tale about being repeatedly raped as an altar boy by a couple of priests and a school teacher.
Hernandez was supposedly the “best guy friend” that Billy Doe first confided his story of sex abuse to back when they were high school classmates at the International Christian Academy in Northeast Philadelphia.
Hernandez told the jury that when he and Billy were sophomores at the Christian Academy, they used a Bible verse as a weapon against a male teacher who got “touchy-feely” with them. In court, Hernandez presented himself as a clean-cut, straight-arrow, honorably-discharged Air Force vet living with his girlfriend and newborn son at a house he owned in Mayfair. But none of that turns out to be true.
Billy Doe is currently suing the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and his alleged abusers in a civil suit in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Meanwhile, his former “best guy friend” Leo Omar Hernandez has filed a medical malpractice case filed in Common Pleas Court against a Philadelphia osteopath, a male doctor that Hernandez claims got him hooked on drugs and then had an abusive sexual relationship with him.
Records gathered for that medical malpractice case show that while Leo Omar Hernandez claims he’s a victim, he also admits he’s a former drug addict, steroid abuser, and dancer in gay male strip clubs.
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