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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Joshua Sharpe – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The prosecutor thought something was odd about the priest.
Father Stanley Idziak, about 50 years old, seemed overly talkative and nervous. He inhaled one cigarette after another, billowing like a smokestack as they spoke. Also strange was Idziak’s reaction when the prosecutor, J. Tom Morgan, explained why he’d asked for the meeting.
A man had called the DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office claiming Idziak had molested him as a child at Stone Mountain’s Corpus Christi Catholic Church. Morgan, who’d faced many accused child molesters before, didn’t think Idziak seemed surprised.
It was as if the priest knew the question was coming.
“There are a lot of troubled youth out there,” Morgan recalls Idziak saying. “I’m only there to help them, but I’ve never done anything inappropriate.”
Morgan did not believe him.
But he knew the four-year statute of limitations had long passed. He only hoped the talk could give a hint about whether there were more victims, perhaps one with a prosecutable case.
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