HOUSTON (TX)
ABC13-TV
November 21, 2018
By Jessica Willey
ABC13’s Jessica Willey speaks to a Spring woman whose son accused a priest of abuse | Despite a list outing priests, she’s not too hopeful her son’s priest will be on it.
Ahead of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston publishing a list of all clergy “credibly accused’ of sexual abuse, a mother of one alleged victim isn’t hopeful the priest her son says abused him will be on it.
Carol LaBonte, of Spring, has been frustrated with the church she loves for years.
“It has been covered up and covered up and covered up,” she said. “I’ve had it.”
When her now-adult son, John LaBonte, who does not live in Texas anymore, was 16, she says he was sexually abused by a priest who sent him an incriminating letter.
“I know you were upset by what happened and I don’t want you to be and I really love you,” she recalled elements of the letter.
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