Father Murphys Victims Share Horrors, Mike Jacobs, WTMJ, May 26, 2010

Father Murphy's Victims Share Horrors

By Mike Jacobs
WTMJ
May 26, 2010

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/94841824.html

[with video]

A victim of a pedophile priest in Milwaukee shared his story with Mike Jacobs.

The victim, Steven Geier, was one of the many boys assaulted by Father Murphy at St. John's School for the Deaf.

Geier was just 9 when he arrived at St. John's. He was first abused when he was about 13.

With the help of a translator, Geier told us what happened that horrible night... and so many nights after.

Father Murphy took him from the boys' dorm on the second floor up to a closet on the third floor.

"He then asked me to take my pajamas off. I was confused and said 'why?'" Geier told us. "But he kept on me and tried over and over again and tried to force me to take my pajamas off and I said no and then he forced me and pulled my pajamas down."

"And I didn't understand," he continued. "This was a man who works for God and he's doing this to me. He's touching my private areas? And so he actually did masturbate me. I was quite shocked. His face and his eyes looked so mean, like he was just. I don't know what."

Father Murphy molested Steven Geier four times. Geier saw other boys molested too, often late at night.

"And I noticed Father Murphy walking through our dorm room and there was another boy in the next bed. And I thought, what's he doing," Geier remembered. "And so he woke up the boy and then he was sexually abusing him right there in that bed."

"Was he a monster?" Mike Jacobs asked Geier.

"More than a monster, definitely more than a monster it was like he was the devil in a priest outfit," Geier responded.

Geier was on the school's basketball team. Father Murphy took a special interest in young athletes, Geier recalled.

"The boys would all go into the shower, like when after we were done playing basketball," he said. "Father Murphy was always there and he was always watching all of us boys in the shower. It was like he was sizing everybody up or something. "

Geier left St. John's when he was 16. But Father Murphy continued abusing other boys for years. Geier tried to tell others what happened, but no one would believe him.

"I did though try to report this to three different priest in madison. And each one said to me, 'oh this can't be. No way.' "

But now, we know the truth.

"Father Murphy had not a care about deaf children. He just completely and totally used us. Took advantage of us. He had no consideration of life. He just used all these deaf boys' bodies cause he could," Geier said.

Now 59, Geier has high blood pressure, heart problems and anger management issues he attributes to the abuse.

We asked if Father Murphy ruined his life? The answer-- yes. And Geier said he will never forgive Father Murphy.

Tomorrow night at 10:00, Archbishop Listecki watches our entire interview with Steven Geier and responds. Also the entire raw interview of Steven Geier can be found on our website.