PHILIPPINES
Philippine Daily Inquirer
By: Germelina Lacorte
@inquirerdotnet
Inquirer Mindanao
December 5th, 2015
DAVAO CITY, Philippines—Mayor Rodrigo Duterte has named the priest who allegedly molested him and several other high school boys when he was a teenager studying at the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) here.
Duterte said the sexual abuser was the late Fr. Mark Falvey, SJ, one of the Jesuit priests at AdDU, and that the abuse happened once when he was a high school freshman in 1956. And he spelled out the name of the American Jesuit priest.
“It happened during our generation, two years ahead of us and two years following us,” Duterte told reporters here late Thursday.
“It was a case of fondling, you know, during confession, that’s how we lost our innocence early,” he said.
“It was a sort of sexual awakening for each of us. We realized quite early that ganun talaga ang buhay (life is really like that),” Duterte said.
He said Falvey was later involved in a payout amounting to P25 million in the United States after a number of his victims filed a case against him.
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