JEFFERSON (WI)
Channel 3000
Sept. 10, 2019
By Rose Schmidt
A man who says a Catholic priest sexually abused him when he was a teenager took the stand Tuesday in the second day of the now-retired cleric’s sexual assault trial.
The accuser, now 26, alleges that William Nolan sexually assaulted him more than 100 times over a span of four years starting in 2006 when the alleged victim was in middle school. At the time of the alleged incidents, the accuser said he was an altar boy at St. Joseph’s Church in Fort Atkinson and Nolan was the priest.
He testified that he never “never felt like a victim” because he was often the one who instigated the sexual encounters with Nolan.
“Part of me did feel guilty for doing it because … I also sought it out, so I felt bad for getting a man in trouble who I do not hate or did not dislike. I felt bad and had a hard time calling the police knowing that it would put him in very serious trouble,” the accuser said in Jefferson County court Tuesday.
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