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By Ken Stone and Annie Lane
Sandusky at Penn State. Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles. A 60 Minutes episode on the pedophile priest scandal in Ireland.
Recent cases of child sex abuse at the hands of trusted adults are tragically sad, but seem far removed from the Jewel of the Hills. But in the 1980s, a priest at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church may have been the Jerry Sandusky of La Mesa.
The Rev. John Keith, who later served as a chaplain at Grossmont Hospital, went to his grave denying he had molested an altar boy named Jeremy Norton.
A year before his death in May 2003, Keith told the Union-Tribune: “I swear to God none of this happened. But I have an idea [Jeremy] was convinced it happened, by his mother.”
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