By Kacie Breeding
The Times-News
October 8, 2011
http://www.timesnews.net/article/9036732/former-kingsport-priest39s-sentencing-date-postponed
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| William Claude Casey, 77 |
The sentencing of a former Kingsport priest convicted in July of first-degree sexual misconduct and two counts of aggravated rape in Sullivan County Criminal Court has been postponed again.
The sentencing of William Casey, 77, 740 Shakerag Road, Greeneville, has been moved from Friday to Nov. 23 at his attorneys’ request. It was previously postponed from August.
A call to the office of Casey’s lead attorney, Rick Spivey, revealed the reset was requested for personal reasons.
Casey has been incarcerated pending sentencing since his conviction after a judge declined to grant him bond. His charges alleged he began to sexually abuse a young altar boy shortly after becoming priest of St. Dominic’s Catholic Church in Kingsport in the 1970s.
Sullivan County District Attorney Barry Staubus called the case “one of the most emotionally draining” that he’s ever handled but said he believed the victim, Warren Tucker, now 46, has finally been “vindicated”after 35 years.
Tucker testified Casey raped him twice — once when he was 13 and once when he was 14 — and performed oral sex on him in his mother’s trailer shortly before his 15th birthday, with Tucker saying he “felt obligated” to reciprocate the act. Hedescribed feelingpowerless to resist a man he believed to be “representative of God on earth.”
Casey is currently on probation for a conviction out of McDowell County, N.C. He also has been placed on electronic monitoring due to pending charges in Scott County, Va. Tucker is cited as the victim in both of those cases as well.
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