PENNSYLVANIA
Independent (UK)
Mark Scolforo
A now-retired Roman Catholic priest has been charged with forcing a 10-year-old Pennsylvania boy to perform oral sex on him while counselling the fourth-grader about misbehaving on a school bus.
The state attorney general’s office accused the Reverend John Thomas Sweeney of committing felony involuntary deviate sexual intercourse at St. Margaret Mary Elementary School in Lower Burrell during the 1991-92 school year.
The boy, now 35 and serving in the Coast Guard, told investigators that after the attack Sweeney’s secretary gave him milk and cookies, prosecutors said.
“He is a hero for his service,” Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. “Today we know him as a hero for coming forward to share his story with us.”
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