Damn! My childhook Priest is accused in a lawsuit of sexually abusing a 13-year-old altar boy

[trumad]

I was a 13 year altar boy for Father Walk back in the early seventies and I gotta say he never once tried anything with me. This was a great Priest and I am stunned about this. It appears he's been accused a couple of times over the years.

A Catholic priest and former chaplain for the Miami Dolphins was accused in a lawsuit filed against the Archdiocese of Miami Thursday of sexually abusing a 13-year-old altar boy at St. James Catholic Church in North Miami over a five-year period beginning in 1977.

The plaintiff, now 43, alleges that the Rev. Donald Walk took him to Dolphins games and introduced him to players and coaches as he groomed him for abuse.

Walk, now retired and living in Venice, Fla., has been accused of sexual abuse in two other cases filed by the plaintiff's attorney, Jeffrey Herman. The archdiocese settled one of those cases as part of a six-case, $750,000 payment in 2006. The other case is pending, Herman said.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbsexsuit1221sbdec21,0,3858883.story?coll=sofla_tab01_layout

[MADem]

1. Were you a big kid? Maybe he was afraid you'd deck him. NT

[trumad]

4. Kind of at 13

but still

[MADem]

6. He was afraid you'd clean his clock, I'd wager.

Cowardly bullies only go after easy targets.

[michaz]

2. Maybe he was falsely accused! It happens!

[MADem]

7. More than once? How unlucky!! I don't think so...the church SETTLED over this clown. NT

[Crayson]

3. What's a childhook

Childhook... hmm.. that word alone says it all... they hook up with childs.

[bcoylepa]

5. watch this film

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/handofgod/talk/

Frontline - Hand of God - abuse in the Boston Archdiocese - it is very well done.

[spanone]

8. geez, when i was a kid, the younger priest in our parish was diddlin' the women

oh, how times have changed

[helderheid]

9. My kindergarten teacher is in prison for molesting boys in his classes.