YORK (PA)
York Daily Record
October 4, 2018
By Sam Ruland
Kevin Hoover doesn’t exactly remember the day he was told Brian was dead.
The minute details of where he was and what he was doing don’t seem to come to mind. But, the one thing he does remember is that he knew how Brian died before anyone told him.
“I knew he had killed himself,” Hoover said, recalling the death of his former classmate Brian Gergely. Both boys were exposed to the abuse of Father Francis McCaa while attending Holy Name Elementary School in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, during the 1980s.
“I just thought,” Hoover paused, taking a breath before speaking his next words. “McCaa claims another one.” It sounded like defeat as it rolled off his tongue.
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