Priest tells of Foley Relationship

[FormerDem06]

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061019/NEWS/610190725

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A Catholic priest told the Herald-Tribune on Wednesday about an intimate two-year relationship he had with former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley when the congressman was a teenage altar boy living in Lake Worth.

From his home on the island of Gozo, near Italy, Anthony Mercieca described a series of encounters that he said Foley might perceive as sexually inappropriate.

Among them: massaging Foley while the boy was naked, skinny-dipping together at a secluded lake in Lake Worth and being naked in the same room on overnight trips.
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Those sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Mercieca is the priest Foley has claimed sexually abused him.

They say Foley and Mercieca had only one sexual encounter that took place when Foley was 12 or 13.

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You know, if it's true, I think a lot of things are starting to come into focus. Makes sense why he would campaign so hard against predators. You can't combat that stuff in your brain when you're 12 or 13; there is just too much going on up there.

[soothsayer]

1. I'm with you. Pretty amazing that this priest has come forward.

It's shocking how patterns of abuse get established.

[Demit]

2. Sounds to me that revealing this relationship is something Foley kept in

his back pocket for a long time—to be pulled out when it would be most useful to him. And in the meantime he could get his jollies sending sexual messages to teenagers he had power over. This is so cold and calculated.

[WePurrsevere]

3. Locking... Duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2569605