BELLEFONTE (DE)
Delaware News Journal
August 16, 2018
By Xerxes Wilson
He always paid special attention to her.
Mary was a young teen. Father John Sarro was a Catholic priest making “creepy” comments about marrying her. Then there were the handwritten letters he sent her throughout her teenage years.
“God gave me a treasure when he gave me you,” she recalled him writing.
But it was more than words.
She remembers Sarro as “overly affectionate;” a tall, unkempt man who crossed the line into personal space and made people feel uncomfortable.
In the early 1990s, at age 11, Mary got a job at the rectory of St. Helena’s Catholic Church in Bellefonte, answering the few phone calls that came in at night as she finished her homework.
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