OMAHA (NE)
World-Herald
By Todd Cooper
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
Daniel Herek sat in a Douglas County courtroom Friday in a different role.
Alleged victim. Not villain.
The removed Omaha priest — who was imprisoned for molesting one altar boy and is the subject of lawsuits claiming he molested others — said in court Friday that he has been harassed and hounded by a mentally ill man.
In late May, the 33-year-old man urged a judge to impose a protection order against Herek — claiming Herek had abused him as a child and stalked him as an adult.
In response, Herek asked for a protection order against the man, saying he had no idea who the man was until the man started leaving menacing messages on Herek’s voice mail last year.
Gaunt and wearing his hair in his characteristic comb-over, the 67-year-old Herek emphatically denied any wrongdoing.
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