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Pennsylvania witness lashes out at Catholic Church

By Maryclaire Dale

 |  Associated Press  

  May 01, 2012

47-year-old man unleashed his fury Monday at the Roman Catholic Church, staring down a church official in a Philadelphia courtroom as he described being forced as a child to engage in sex acts with a priest. The man glared Monday at Monsignor William Lynn at the defense table and complained that only one church representative, a priest friend, had ever apologized. “It always felt wrong. A man should not touch a child,’’ said the man, the ninth of 10 children in his Levittown family.

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