Word: doe
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...that first year at St. Thomas that Doe, then 14, had a sexual experience with a fellow male student, creating wrenching confusion about his sexuality - emotions that he took to O'Connell the following autumn for counseling. The sessions, at first, were always at night in O'Connell's office, just 15 feet from his bedroom. One night, in November of 1983, after Doe had come to the office for a prayer session, Doe says O'Connell concluded it by giving him a bear hug - and grabbing his crotch. "I was shocked," says Doe, sobbing in an interview with TIME...
...After that, Doe alleges, O'Connell had the boy, then 15, write a journal explicitly detailing his sexual thoughts and fantasies - all under the guise of "saving" C.C. Doe from his homosexual tendencies. In a phone conversation with O'Connell two weeks ago on March 9, the day after O'Connell resigned as bishop in Palm Beach, Doe says O'Connell told him that those sessions were meant "to help me see that I was not gay, that it was possible for two men to physically touch naked in bed, but that didn't mean you were a homosexual...
...Doe says O'Connell eventually used the journal as an overture for touching the boy, pulling him on to his lap and masturbating Doe. During Doe's last two years at St. Thomas, "my meetings with him were not in his office but in his bed. When we moved there, there was always a lot of wrestling. He placed my head down between his legs. My feeling is that he was frustrated because I would not have oral sex with...
...These sessions, which often lasted from 10 PM to 4 AM, went on sometimes two, three times a month - basically, says Doe, whenever O'Connell had the urge, until Doe graduated from St. Thomas in 1986 (in the summer of 1984, while O'Connell drove Doe home for vacation, Does says he and the priest even stayed overnight in a hotel room, where they slept together naked). In the late 1980s, as Doe was pursuing ordination - and even after O'Connell was named bishop of the newly formed diocese of Knoxville, Tenn. in 1988 - O'Connell kept pursuing Doe...
...Doe says he decided to file suit when he heard, as a result of O'Connell's resignation this month, that there had been other victims. "I believed that I was the only one," says Doe, who is now openly gay and works in health care at a Missouri hospital. "The man was my friend, I thought he was my mentor. I felt affection for him; he was the man I most wanted to be like. It makes me angry to know that other people were hurt...