WEST VIRGINIA
WTOV
By NEWS9
A man has testified during a clergy sex-abuse trial that he was raped at a home owned by the current West Virginia bishop and that he was told the bishop also sexually abused a boy. The testimony came at the trial of the Rev. James Brennan.
The 48-year-old witness made the statements Wednesday in Philadelphia about Michael Bransfield, bishop of the Wheeling-Charleston diocese.
He said he saw Bransfield bring several boys to a farm owned by now-defrocked priest Stanley Gana.
The witness said Gana told him Bransfield was having sex with one of them.
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