NEW YORK (NY)
The New York Post
August 15, 2018
By Tamar Lapin
A Pennsylvania priest tortured an altar boy for over a year, sexually abusing him and beating him with a metal cross, then left the church for a gig at Walt Disney World — with a reference from the diocese, a grand jury report found.
The Rev. Edward George Ganster is one of hundreds of priests named in the statewide grand jury investigation, which found that 1,000 children were abused in Pennsylvania for decades, as church leaders shielded their tormentors.
Years after being abused, a married 37-year-old man came forward in 2002 to say that Ganster had fondled and groped him for over a year and a half, beginning when he was 14 and an altar boy at St. Joseph in Frackville.
In one instance, Ganster allegedly dragged the boy across the living room, pulling him by his underwear. He also beat the boy multiple times — including once with a metal cross, the report states.
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