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	For Those Sexually Abused Decades Ago, State Offers Little Legal Recourse By Frank N. Carlson Metro Pulse April 21, 2010 http://www.metropulse.com/news/2010/apr/21/those-sexually-abused-decades-ago-state-offers-lit/ Last Wednesday, a 44-year-old Indiana man named Warren Tucker stood outside the Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville and announced he’d been sexually abused by an East Tennessee priest some 30 years ago. “I have come forward now, after overcoming the shame, the embarrassment, and the fear that has controlled my life for way too long, to try to spare even one child the hell that has been and is still my life,” Tucker read from a statement. Referring to the priest as “Father X,” Tucker said the abuse began when he entered the 5th grade and took place from about 1975 to 1980. Father X was soon revealed to be Father Bill Casey, who served in the Kingsport parish and in Farragut’s St. John Neumann Catholic Church during the past few decades. After admitting to Bishop Richard Stika that Tucker’s allegations had merit, Casey on Monday was taken into custody by Greene County, Tenn., police.
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