ST. LOUIS (MO)
Post-Dispatch
By Robert Patrick
Of the Post-Dispatch
08/30/2005
The Rev. Thomas Graham testified Tuesday that he "fell apart" when officials of the Archdiocese of St. Louis told him in 1994 that he had been accused of sexually abusing a young boy.
"I knew my life was over with because of this allegation," Graham told St. Louis Circuit Court jurors in his criminal trial.
Church officials investigated the allegation and "based on available information, did not find it to be substantiated," according to a statement released Monday.
But they removed Graham from active ministry in 2002 after he was indicted by a grand jury on a single charge of sodomy.
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