Men [of God] at work in New York
25 Mar 2001
NEW YORK
BROOKLYN - Three men, former students at St. Cecilia's School, have come
forward to speak about what they charge was done to them around the early
1980s by the school's then-administrator and supervisor of altar boys, Fr.
Patrick Sexton, 49.
One of the former students said that when he was 12,Sexton lured him to his
bedroom in the church rectory. He said the naked priest had him strip and
adopt poses while snapping photos.
One of the men, Daniel Dugo, has gone to the police and to the district
attorney, charging that when he was 8, Sexton fondled him while nibbling his
ear. He first approached the Brooklyn Diocese, which offered him offering
$15,000 in exchange for silence.
The police and the district attorney told Dugo that even if the nearly
20-year-old charges are true, there is nothing they can do. The statute of
limitations is up. However, a police source familiar with the case said the
district attorney is continuing to investigate. No longer a practicing
priest, he lives across the street from a playground and a public school in
Queens. A neighbor said he gives music lessons after school to boys.
Sexton said he denies all the charges and doesn't understand why the 3
former students remember things the way they do. He denied acting in a
sexually inappropriate way. "What happened 20 years ago is all in memory,
and memory can do what it wants," Sexton said. "Their memory is not
accurate. If I'm affectionate, then they are remembering affection as not
affection."
Post, 3/7/00
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