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Bangor Daily News
By Judy Harrison, BDN Staff
Posted March 16, 2015
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BANGOR, Maine — A former altar server at St. George Greek Orthodox Church testified Monday at the Penobscot Judicial Center that then-priest Adam Metropoulos, 52, of Bangor sexually assaulted him repeatedly at the church rectory in 2006 and 2007.
The man, who is now 23 and lives in Vermont, is not being identified by the Bangor Daily News because he might be the victim of a sex crime.
He told Superior Court Justice Ann Murray that he was an altar server from age 10 until he was 19 at the church on Sanford Street in Bangor. Because his family lived in Hancock County, he often spent the night at the rectory located on Fourteenth Street in Bangor. He said the assaults most often took place during Lent because there are additional services in the Orthodox church.
The Vermont man said that he would sleep in a spare bedroom or on a futon in the living room. Metropoulos often slept in bed with him, sometimes, a second boy slept with them as well, he testified.
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