NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY JAMES FANELLI
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, June 26, 2017
A Catholic priest preyed on a vulnerable Brooklyn parishioner by twisting church theology in order to pressure her into performing sex acts on him, a lawsuit charges.
Father Andre Bain is accused of sexually abusing the young woman, who came to him for counseling shortly after he became the head of St. Vincent Ferrer Church in East Flatbush in July 2014.
Instead of providing spiritual guidance, Bain, 44, pushed the woman — who was in her 20s — into sexual acts over the course of several months, according to the lawsuit. The priest kept her quiet about the abuse by telling her they weren’t committing a sin because it was not vaginal intercourse, the lawsuit says.
The accuser — who filed the lawsuit anonymously — is suing the Brooklyn Diocese and its bishop, Nicholas DiMarzio, for negligence, saying that they were slow to respond to the woman’s complaint, allowing Bain to prey on her and other women.
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