PHOENIX (AZ)
3TV/CBS 5
July 11, 2019
By Nicole Crites
We are hearing for the first time from a Phoenix man who says he was sexually abused by a former priest who was just extradited to the Valley to face charges after more than a decade on the run.
Now a high school teacher, he asked us to protect his identity as he prepares to testify at trial.
“I’m not showing my face because not everybody can deal with that, and there are gonna be people who say, ‘Hey, watch out for this guy,'” he said
He says former father Joseph Henn sexually abused him when he was an altar boy at St. Mark’s in the late ’70s and early ’80s.
“No one, not one, even to today, these many years afterwards (sic), no one from the church has come to interview me or ask, ‘What happened?'” he said. “They don’t wanna know!
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