TENNESSEE
WBIR
Brittany Bade, WBIR
(WBIR-Greeneville) A former East Tennessee priest, convicted of raping an altar boy in 2011, wants a new trial.
William Casey is serving a more than 30 years after he was convicted of inappropriately touching Warren Tucker in the 1970’s.
“He used to take me back and forth from Kingsport to Greene County. Where he lives and had a rural cabin on his property. There was the majority of the abuse,” said Tucker, who was last living in Indiana, in the 2011 trial.
Tucker’s 40-year-old memories were called into question in the Summer of 2013, when the former priest tried to get his conviction thrown out. His then-attorneys argued too much time passed between the crime and the trial, but his conviction was upheld. …
SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, told 10News in a statement, “We’re sad that an admitted predator priest is rubbing salt into the wounds of his victims by making yet another desperate legal move to escape responsibility for his heinous crimes by exploiting legal technicalities.”
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