PENNSYLVANIA
PennLive
By Ivey DeJesus | idejesus@pennlive.com
By the time Mike Berkery was in high school, Stanley Gana, then a priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, had raped him hundreds of times.
Gana, a spectacled man of 300 pounds, began grooming Berkery in 1978 when the boy, whose family attended Ascension Church in Philadelphia, was in eighth grade.
Gana sodomized the boy repeatedly, forcing him to have oral and anal sex in locations around Philadelphia and New Jersey, and as far away as Disney World, Notre Dame University, New York and Canada.
In textbook grooming, Gana alienated Berkery from his friends and family. He bought him gifts and gave him money, and put him in charge of the animals at his farm in northeastern Pennsylvania. By the time Berkery was 16, Gana had given him the keys to a new car.
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