PENNSYLVANIA
Tribune-Democrat

By Dave Sutor
dsutor@tribdem.com

Editor’s note: This story deals with subjects of a sexual nature and details may be disturbing to some readers.

Dave Casker, in his own words, was an early sexual bloomer.

So, when a man who was involved in activities at Our Mother of Sorrows parish made advancements toward him, Casker, then about 11 years old, thought it was interesting. They allegedly would engage in sexual activities – although never oral or anal – at the man’s house, the school office, in the church basement and at other locations for a few years in the 1950s.

“Most of our encounters were, I think, him just liked having a little guy naked with him,” Casker said during a recent interview at The Tribune-Democrat, responding to reports of widespread child sexual abuse across the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.

“It was just kind of playing…