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	Priest Admits to Affairs, Fathering Children Associated Press, carried in Spokesman Review [Anchorage AK] March 4, 2007 http://www.spokesmanreview.com/local/story.asp?ID=177374 Anchorage, Alaska – A priest being sued for child support has admitted to fathering children, carrying on affairs and hiring prostitutes, according to a deposition filed with the court. A transcript of the deposition was filed in Superior Court on Friday at the end of a hearing conducted to hear several motions in a lawsuit filed by two children fathered by the Rev. James Jacobson, 83, a retired Jesuit priest who worked in Yup'ik villages in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta for about 15 years, until 1976. Jacobson denied forcing women or girls to have sex but admitted that he had relations with a number of women in rural Alaska, according to the deposition. During the deposition, Jacobson said he used church funds to hire prostitutes in Anchorage and Fairbanks when he was principal of the old Copper Valley School near Glennallen, a Jesuit boarding school that closed in 1971.
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