"Mom wanted spirituality in our lives," says the woman, who grew up in Reno but now lives in Southern California. "Father David baptized us and our lives began to revolve around the church."

At that time, around 1973-74, Brusky was associate pastor of St. Albert the Great parish.

"He became involved with our family," she says. "He was funny, engaging. He paid attention to the kids. He would tell us stories about Africa."

Father David, as they called him, grounded her home, she says.

"It seemed like a good thing," she recalled. "But soon weird things began to happen."

As a girl, at that time about 9 or 10, she wore big, blousey nightgowns to bed, and Brusky would often begin by rubbing her back, she says.

"Then he would be massaging your breasts," she says. "He would put us to bed and do the same thing."

She and her sisters would talk about him regularly, she says, asking each other, "Did Father David touch your boobs?"

One day he invited her to the rectory after church so he could change clothes for a picnic, she says.

"It was very dark. I was nervous," she says.

"We went to his quarters -- it was a messy room -- and he went into a side room," she says. "When he came out, he was wearing only his blue Speedo underwear."

"He said why don't you come give Father David a hug," she recalls. "I froze. He grabbed me and pulled me into him and put his hands on my breasts. I freaked out and I pushed him away."

The girl ran out, and when he came out a few minutes later, he had changed clothes, she says.

They never talked about it, she says, and her relationship with him "went back to the fondling."

"I didn't understand sex then," she recalls, but adds that his touching sparked intense anxiety in her.

"I wasn't feeling it. I would just leave my body to deal with it," she says. "I developed a way to check out."

In an interview in Milwaukee last week, Brusky said he can't remember ever touching the woman but said he recalled baby-sitting her younger sister while their mother worked late at a local casino.

"Did anything ever happen with the girls?" he was asked.

"No," he replied, then added, "I can't remember anything."

Now the woman wants the church to take responsibility for Brusky's behavior and is considering legal action, she says.

"I would like to see them show that they really grasp the level of wrongness that happened, the damage to the victims, the people assaulted and the women violated," she says.

"Our parents were tricked -- all those parents who welcomed him into their homes and made him a part of the family."