CARLISLE (PA)
The Sentinel
September 4, 2018
By Mary Sanchez
The excruciating pain of Michael Foreman has never been widely shared, certainly not with his name attached.
Now in his mid-50s, the Kansas City area man — listed as John Doe in previous court filings — began pursuing a legal claim about five years ago that he is a victim of a deceased pedophile priest who had been assigned to a number of Kansas parishes. A professional evaluation concurred, finding him “traumatically affected in his life due to the victimization inflicted by a trusted leader in his community.”
That’s putting it lightly. He’s a self-described hermit, a man who can spend four to five hours each day rocking back and forth in a self-soothing ritual.
Foreman claims he was abused at age 11 in 1972, when his devoutly Catholic mother sent her boisterous son to the parish priest for one-on-one counseling.
The priest allegedly engaged in strange therapies, having the young boy beat him with a pillow as the priest was on the floor in a fetal position. Foreman says the priest tried to kiss him, “slobbering” all over him.
Other details from other sessions, Foreman says, are blocked from his memory.
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