By Lee Hill
NPR
September 29, 2010
http://www.npr.org/blogs/tellmemore/2010/09/29/130222697/chasing-jamal-parris-did-tv-station-cross-the-line
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| Jamal Parris talks to an Atlanta TV reporter about accusations of sexual coercion against Atlanta-area megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long. |
A newly surfaced television interview with Jamal Parris, the third of four men accusing Atlanta-area megachurch pastor Bishop Eddie Long of sexual coercion, is making its rounds online.
The local Fox affiliate in Atlanta, WAGA-TV, landed the "exclusive" interview after it dispatched its "Senior I-Team Reporter" Dale Russell to hunt for Parris in Colorado, where he now lives — but the city was not disclosed.
Apparently, the feverish hunt was successful.
Parris appears in the report looking as though he has been ambushed by Russell and his determined TV crew in a grocery store parking lot.
The reporter even goes as far as to admit, "Jamal Parris didn't want to talk at first, but before he left us he had plenty to say about Bishop Eddie Long."
The tape then portrays Parris, the oldest of the accusers, delivering an emotional account of his alleged dealings with Long and he offers what is probably the most chilling description yet of the accusations at hand:
I cannot get the sound of his voice out of my head. I cannot forget the smell of his cologne. And I cannot forget the way that he made me cry many nights when I drove in his car on the way home, not able to take enough showers to wipe the smell of him off of my body.
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