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...pseudonym is John C.C. Doe in the civil suit filed Friday in the state circuit court of Hannibal, Mo., - the third filed so far against the now resigned Palm Beach bishop, Anthony O'Connell. Doe is 34 years old, and what he says happened to him starting 19 years ago, when he was a 15-year-old, "barely 5-feet-tall and 100 lbs," plunged him into a suicidal depression that has haunted his adulthood as well as what should have been the most carefree years of his life. It started in1982, when he entered the St. Thomas Aquinas preparatory...
...City diocese had been receiving complaints about sexual abuse by O'Connell as early as 1967 - and that, under Catholic canon law, the diocese would have been required to keep archival files on those accusations, documents that Anderson says he intends to subpoena. Aides to O'Connell say the bishop is "in seclusion" and will not comment...
...Connell had the boy, then 15, write a journal explicitly detailing his sexual thoughts and fantasies - all under the guise of "saving" C.C. Doe from his homosexual tendencies. In a phone conversation with O'Connell two weeks ago on March 9, the day after O'Connell resigned as bishop in Palm Beach, Doe says O'Connell told him that those sessions were meant "to help me see that I was not gay, that it was possible for two men to physically touch naked in bed, but that didn't mean you were a homosexual...
...summer of 1984, while O'Connell drove Doe home for vacation, Does says he and the priest even stayed overnight in a hotel room, where they slept together naked). In the late 1980s, as Doe was pursuing ordination - and even after O'Connell was named bishop of the newly formed diocese of Knoxville, Tenn. in 1988 - O'Connell kept pursuing Doe, who admits he felt compelled to meet with the prelate whenever O'Connell called. "We'd meet and he'd say, 'Get undressed and get in bed,' and I did." When O'Connell became a bishop, says...
...statement released on Feb. 10, Law said he did not plan to resign and that he intended to help revise the Church’s policy for responding to complaints about sexual abuse. He said that “a bishop is not a corporate executive” but instead plays the “role of a father...