ATLANTA (GA)
CNN
September 11, 2018
By Laura Ly
One of his parishioners, then a vulnerable 18-year-old looking for guidance, was given alcohol by a then-church deacon. The deacon later became a priest and sexually abused the boy.
After he found out about the incident years later, Lasch said he reported it to Archbishop of Boston Sean O’Malley, but that his efforts were dismissed.
“He was a vulnerable adult. [The deacon] got him drunk and groomed him into an encounter,” Lasch said. A drunken teenager [who] has been groomed into a relationship is not complicit.”
The man is a priest in Paterson, New Jersey. “It boggles my mind that the priest continues to serve,” Lasch said.
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