By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times
April 7, 2011
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| Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., addresses the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce in Boston, Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. |
On Wednesday, Sen. Scott Brown was barraged with media questions about Camp Good News after longtime employee Charles R. Devita, 43, committed suicide amid allegations he abused a 10-year-old boy at the camp.
Devita is not linked to Brown's allegations.
"Senator Brown is aware of the reported suicide at Camp Good News, but he wants to emphasize that he does not know the deceased and has never met him," Gail Gitcho, a spokeswoman for Brown, said in an email.
Brown has said he doesn't want to seek criminal charges against his alleged attacker, who was a camp counselor.
"We've had a lengthy conversation about it," Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said Wednesday, declining to elaborate on his discussions with Brown.
Camp employees told the Cape Cod Times that Brown had attended Camp Good News.
On Howie Carr's radio show Wednesday on WRKO in Boston, Brown attempted to avoid questions about Wednesday's incident at the camp and then reiterated that he doesn't want to seek criminal charges.
"I have no evidence at all that the person who did it to me 42 years ago is, No. 1, even alive and, No. 2 , is doing it again. If I had any experiences like that or any inclination whatsoever, I certainly would (prosecute)," Brown said. "Once again, I'm moving forward in my own way, at my own pace, with my own support system," he said.
Carr asked Brown if he felt any guilt about Devita's suicide. "I don't even know the facts about what happened this morning aside from what you and others have briefly told me."
"I'm the victim," Brown said. "I'm the victim. "» So I've felt guilty long enough and it's taken me 42 years to come forward and talk about it."
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