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	Priest Pleads Guilty to Molesting Boy in Wnc By Clarke Morrison The Citizen-Times July 28, 2010 http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100728/NEWS01/100728015/1009 MARION — A retired Catholic priest pleaded guilty today to molesting a boy while on a trip to Western North Carolina more than 30 years ago. Bill Casey, 77, received a suspended jail sentence in McDowell County District Court on one count of crime against nature. He also was placed on two years of supervised probation, required to comply with the requirements of a sex offender control program and ordered not to associated with children unless in the company of a responsible adult. McDowell County deputies arrested Casey in April after Warren Tucker of Jeffersonville, Ind., came forward with allegations that he was sexually abused for five years starting in 1975 when he was a fifth-grader at St. Dominic’s Church in Kingsport, Tenn. Casey was the parish pastor in Kingsport from 1976 to 1987. He spent time in six other parishes in east Tennessee in his 30-year career as an active priest before retiring in 1999, then began filling in for vacationing priests. The Knoxville Diocese suspended Casey after church officials learned of Tucker’s allegations. Bishop Richard Stika said Casey admitted to abusing the boy. Tucker said Casey molested him until he was about 15 years old, including once at a lodge on an overnight trip to the community of Little Switzerland in McDowell County to go gem mining. “It only happened once in McDowell,” he said. “It happened dozens and dozens and dozens of times in Tennessee. “Clergy sex abuse needs to stop. I’ll dedicate the rest of my life to that.” Tucker said he filed a criminal complaint in North Carolina because it doesn’t have a statute of limitations on felonies but Tennessee does.
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