NEW YORK
New York Post
By Isabel Vincent an
d Melissa Klein
October 11, 2015
The mistress of pastry-porn priest George Passias helped herself to $30,000 on her way out the door as the parish school principal in a sex scandal that’s rocked the Greek Orthodox church.
Ethel Bouzalas, 45, admits grabbing the cash — tuition money paid by parents at St. Spyridon Parochial School — from a school safe in a soul-baring e-mail to Bishop Andonios Paropoulos, the chancellor of the Greek Orthodox church in the United States.
The Peruvian mom of three also told the bishop how she feels “used” and “hurt” by the 67-year-old Passias, who got her pregnant, and that she suspects she’s not his first mistress.
“I am not going to dare ask if Father George has done something like this before, although it seems as if . . . he has. Why should I doubt it?” she wrote in the e-mail seen by The Post. “I’ve been left to bare [sic] the brunt of the scandal while he has safely hidden himself away. My sister says that I’ve been used and victimized for my money and that I am probably not the first victim who has fallen. I’m hurt like I’ve never been hurt.”
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