“I tried to kill myself over this”: Victims confront priest they say abused them 30 years ago

NEW YORK (NY)
CBS News

October 17, 2018

By Nikkei Battiste

Sean Dougherty and Brian Sabo hadn’t been back here together in nearly 30 years.

“I don’t have happy memories here. When I think of grade school I think of this. I think of the abuse,” said Dougherty.

“You drive by something that most people just drive by, and we see it,” Sabo said. “You have these feelings of being 12 years old again.”

They came to sit face to face with Rev. George Koharchik, their former teacher who they say molested them when they were in Catholic grade school. Dougherty said the abuse began when he was 10.

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