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...When Doe got to St. Thomas, the man he found who was most like that priest was Father Anthony O'Connell - whom the students called simply "O'C" - the seminary's co-founder and rector, who became Doe's spiritual counselor as well as his English grammar teacher. O'Connell, then 44, was a burly, 5'11", 250-lb Irishman who had come to this country in the 1960s and had set out to create a model seminary. What Doe alleges O'Connell left behind instead was a pattern of sexually abusing the boys in his charge - and a swath...
...More important, because Doe feels that O'Connell and the diocese of Jefferson City conspired to conceal what O'Connell had been doing - and because Doe has material evidence in the form of e-mail and taped phone messages over the past two weeks of O'Connell urging him not to come forward with his own tale of abuse - he and his Minnesota attorney, Jeff Anderson, feel they have grounds to sue O'Connell and the diocese under federal racketeering (RICO) laws usually used to convict mafiosos. "Crime is crime," says Doe, "whether it's for God or for Tony...
...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...