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	I Was Church Sex Puppet By Kieran Crowley New York Post [Mineola] April 24, 2007 http://www.nypost.com/seven/04242007/news/regionalnews/i_was_church_sex_puppet_regionalnews_kieran_crowley.htm April 24, 2007 — An alleged sex-abuse victim testified yesterday that she was a 15-year-old virgin when a 25-year-old Long Island Catholic youth minister seduced her, made her his "puppet" and had sex with her in church pews and a convent. The woman, now 23, testified in the $150 million civil case against the church that for more than two years, Matthew Maiello forced her to have repeated kinky sex with a younger teen boy and that Maiello filmed the sex acts and joined in. Maiello, she tearfully claimed, acted as film director and made the teens perform in an X-rated "game show" he called "Strip SAT Review" while he was supposed to be preparing the girl for her SATs. At one point during direct questioning by lawyer Ben Rubinowitz, the young woman, who has asked not to be named, broke down sobbing, with her head in her hands. She reached her breaking point when Rubinowitz showed her a photo of the couch in Maiello's office in the basement of St. Raphael's Convent in East Meadow, where he allegedly took her virginity in 1999. "I was petrified," the alleged victim said. Maiello "said he would make it easy for me and that God wanted this. He told me that it wasn't my choice ... that it was God's choice." She added, "I was like a puppet. Matt would just control me." Contact: kieran.crowley@nypost.com
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