DETROIT (MI)
Detroit Free Press
January 7, 2005
BY DAVID CRUMM and PATRICIA MONTEMURRI
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS
The father of a Detroit boy who has accused a Catholic priest of abusing him testified Thursday that he thinks his son is fine now and that the family initially did not want to press charges against the Rev. Luis Javier de Alba Campos.
The prosecution and the defense in the priest's trial asked the father why he gave permission for his son, then 7, and the family's priest at St. Gabriel parish to spend the night in an upstairs bedroom in their Detroit home last April.
De Alba Campos' attorney, Juan Mateo, asked why the father did not remove his son from the priest's bed, even after his wife complained that the priest might misbehave with the boy.
"At that moment, I thought she was exaggerating," the boy's father said.
The Free Press is not naming the family members because the paper generally does not publish the names of alleged victims of sex abuse.
Posted by kshaw at January 7, 2005 05:45 AM