FLORIDA
Tampa Tribune
By Keith Morelli | Tribune Staff
PINELLAS PARK — For almost 40 years, a former student at the Mary Help of Christians School in Tampa kept his secret. To tell would have meant a life of shame and an afterlife in hell.
The man, whose name was not released because of the nature of the incidents that happened to him four decades ago, filed a lawsuit as John Doe on Tuesday against the Salesian Society, a Catholic order that operated the boarding school in the East Lake area of Tampa.
He spent his life wondering why he was singled out by Brother John Casula, who died in 1994. All those years the man believed he was the only one who suffered sexual abuse by the ordained brother.
He was only 12 years old at the time and the abuse continued until he was 14.
“This is something that has stayed with me for many years,” he said in the conference room of his attorney Tuesday afternoon.
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