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Full Circle on Foley
Posted on 10-20-2006 at 10:33:01 am by Justin, 172 words, 718 views The Mark Foley scandal comes full circle, back to a sexual interaction between Foley and a late-twenties priest when Foley was a young teenager:
Foley, 52, has said through attorney David Roth that he was molested by a priest when he was between the ages of 13 and 15, which would have been between 1967 and 1969. Foley was an altar boy at Sacred Heart, CNN has confirmed.
Per the priest:
"Once maybe I touched him or so, but didn't, it wasn't -- because it's not something you call, I mean, rape or penetration or anything like that you know. We were just fondling," Father Anthony Mercieca, 69, said in a phone interview ...
Mercieca, however, rejected the idea that he sexually abused Foley, saying, "See abuse, it's a bad word, you know, because abuse, you abuse someone against his will. But it involved just spontaneousness, you know?"
Who knows what really happened, and frankly, who cares? Just one more example of leaders so many uphold as righteous being nothing more than fallible, depraved individuals -- often, just like their followers.
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