PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
By John P. Martin
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
A former student at a Catholic high school in South Philadelphia today described how an Archdiocese of Philadelphia priest stalked him, had him removed from a class, locked him in a conference room, touched his leg and pressed him to talk about homosexuality.
“I told you I’d find you,” the Rev. Francis Trauger allegedly told the boy, then 15.
The priest ordered the boy to kneel and unzip his pants, but the forced encounter abruptly ended when a faculty member began banging on the door, the student said.
Now 36, the man was the second witness to testify at the conspiracy and child-sex abuse trial of two archdiocesan priests.
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