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‘It has been humbling beyond belief’: Community rallies after priest’s arrest on child porn charge
By Renee Ordway, Special to the BDN
Posted Sept. 26, 2014
Community support is often talked about but can be difficult to measure until you need it.
The son of a career military man, Lee Speronis moved a lot, and he has relocated a few times as an adult as well.
In 2003, however, Speronis and his wife, Cathy, and their two children settled in Bangor and have stuck around for the last 11 years. In the past couple of weeks, Speronis has come to appreciate his chosen community more than he thought possible.
Two weeks ago Speronis, president of the St. George Parish Council, received a call from Mark Hathaway, chief of the Bangor Police Department.
The beloved priest of the St. George Church, a small but mighty church in Bangor and the only Eastern Orthodox congregation north of Lewiston, had just been arrested.
“And then he (Hathaway) hesitated for a just a second and said, ‘It’s not good,’” Speronis recalled this week from his office at Husson University, where he works as the director of the school of Hospitality, Sport and Tourism Management.
And, of course, it wasn’t good. The man parishioners called Father, Adam Metropoulos, 52, had just been charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly recording a visitor at his home as she showered and perhaps even worse, a charge of possessing child pornography.
Things would get worse. They generally do when these sorts of revelations surface. There are almost always more.
And there were.
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