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Poughkeepsie Journal
March 14, 2020
By Ariel Gilreath
A former Hyde Park priest is being accused of the sexual assault of a 17-year-old in 2005.
And, a South Carolina university is apologizing for not doing more to assist the teen 15 years ago, in the wake of the priest’s arrest.
Shielagh Clark said she was sexually assaulted by her former pastor at Hyde Park Baptist Church, Jonathan Alan Weaver, but said she was too afraid at the time to pursue police charges.
Late last month, Weaver, 56, was arrested by the Greenville Police Department in South Carolina, and charged with two counts of first-degree assault and battery. Those charges are tied to an incident that allegedly occurred in 2001 when Clark was still in high school and on a trip with Weaver and other teenage students to Bob Jones University, according to warrants. Greenville police charged Weaver with assault and battery because that’s what the evidence supported, Lt. Alia Paramore said.
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