PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Stamford Advocate
By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press
Updated 2:21 pm, Wednesday, January 16, 2013
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A heroin addict whose complaint helped imprison a Philadelphia archdiocese official came under attack Wednesday, as jurors in a priest-abuse trial learned that he had given three different locations for one alleged rape.
Defense lawyers questioning the gaunt, 24-year-old policeman’s son poked several holes in his accounts, some of which he attributed to years of heavy drug use.
On the stand, he described himself as “semi-comatose … but standing” when he first spoke with a church investigator in 2009.
The witness, with prompting from a counselor, had called the archdiocese from a drug clinic. He ultimately disclosed that two Roman Catholic priests and ex-teacher Bernard Shero had sexually assaulted him in about 1999.
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