NEW JERSEY
The Record
BY JOHN SEASLY
STAFF WRITER | THE RECORD
An incident in which a Little Ferry priest allegedly pointed an unloaded Civil War-style rifle at an 8-year-old boy was preceded by a conversation between the two about their football loyalties and a game to take place that night, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said.
Rev. Kevin Carter, 54, of St. Margaret of Cortona Catholic Church, was talking about football with the boy in the church before Mass on Sunday, Sept. 13, Molinelli said. Carter reminded the boy, who was wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey, that the priest is a fan of the New York Giants. The two teams were scheduled to play each other that night. The boy has not been identified by police.
A few minutes later, Molinelli said, Carter called the boy into one of the rectory rooms and had the boy stand against a wall. Carter then pointed an unloaded, Civil War-style musket at him and said, “I’m going to shoot you,” Molinelli said in an interview Saturday.
“Even if it was a joke, you don’t play that kind of a joke on an 8-year-old,” Molinelli said Saturday.
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