NEW ORLEANS (LA)
Times Picayune
August 5, 2019
By Ramon Antonio Vargas
Former New Orleans baseball star Peter Modica walked into a Jefferson Parish courtroom on May 9, 1963, and admitted that he had performed oral sex on two 13-year-old boys several weeks earlier at the Metairie playground he supervised.
After serving five years probation, he somehow landed a job as a head janitor at the all-boys Jesuit High School, where he abused minors again.
A 49-year-old man who says he was 11 when Modica began molesting him on Jesuit’s campus in the early 1980s publicly recounted his ordeal for the first time Monday, nearly 11 months after another man who said he was victimized by Modica went public with the financial settlement he received from the Jesuit order, which runs the school.
Speaking at the office of his attorney, Roger Stetter, who frequently represents people abused by Catholic clergy, the man discussed his intention to file a lawsuit against Jesuit in the coming days.
The man, who asked to not be named because he’s told only a handful of people about his molestation, said the leaders of the 170-year-old, all-boys school owe him damages because they failed to protect him from Modica, who they should have known was a child predator.
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