By Matt McKinney
WFMY
May 27, 2011
http://www.digtriad.com/news/article/177065/1/Former-Greensboro-Pastor-Admits-To-Sexually-Abusing-Boy
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| Father James O'Neill |
A Catholic priest who was relieved of his duties as pastor of a Greensboro church amid allegations of "inappropriate behavior" admitted in a deposition that he sexually abused a Delaware boy.
Rev. James O'Neill was a pastor at St. Paul The Apostle Catholic Church on Horse Pen Creek Road in Greensboro for 11 years until 2002. He was relieved of his duties in April 2002 when the allegations surfaced.
The admission by the former Rev. James O'Neill was outlined in a court ruling obtained by The Associated Press in a lawsuit between O'Neill's religious order and its insurance company.
O'Neill was a member of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales and the former principal of Salesianum School in Wilmington, where he was accused of molesting Eric Eden over several years beginning in 1976.
Eden has settled lawsuits with Salesianum, the Oblates and the Diocese of Wilmington.
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