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A Catholic priest admitted yesterday to fondling Mark Foley nearly 40 years ago, an episode the disgraced Florida lawmaker made public after he resigned last month for sending sexually explicit Internet messages to teenage boys he knew from the Congressional Page Program.
"Once maybe I touched him or so," the Rev. Anthony Mercieca, 69, yesterday told a TV station in Florida, where Mr. Foley is in therapy for a reported alcohol addiction. "It's not something you call, I mean, rape or penetration or anything like that, you know. We were just fondling."See the full content of this document
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Priest Admits 'Fondling' Foley, Denies Rape
Father Mercieca, who now lives on the Maltese island of Gozo in the Mediterranean Sea, was posted at the Florida church where M...
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