TOWSON (MD)
TheWBALChannel.com
POSTED: 8:20 am EDT June 16, 2005
UPDATED: 6:11 pm EDT June 16, 2005
TOWSON, Md. -- WBAL-TV 11 News has learned a former priest of a Baltimore County school faces three felony child sex charges.
WBAL-TV 11 News reporter Lowell Melser reported the charges center on allegations from a former student that he was sexually abused as a student at Calvert Hall College High School.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore said in January that a former student accused former priest Jerome Toohey of sexually abusing him in the late 1980s. WBAL-TV 11 News has withheld the name of the accuser because he was a minor at the time of the accusations.
In 1993, the Archdiocese said it stripped Toohey of his priestly duties after a former high school boy claimed abuse. Melser reported that nearly 12 years later, Toohey faces similar accusations from a different former Calvert Hall student who claimed abuse from January 1987 to December 1989.
Posted by kshaw at June 16, 2005 05:28 PM