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	'Beach Grope' Rev Says 12-Year-Old Accuser Is Lying By Jessie Graham and Dan Mangan New York Post June 27, 2002 The lawyer for a Catholic priest accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy on Father's Day suggested the child is lying, as a judge ordered the cleric held on $50,000 bond yesterday. The Rev. Peter Kiare's lawyer, Michael Gaffey, questioned why the boy did not shout out if the 41-year-old Kenyan missionary actually molested him during a June 16 outing to Rockaway Beach. "A 12-year-old should be able to shout," said Gaffey, during a Queens Criminal Court hearing. "There's nobody to back up these allegations." Prosecutor Kenneth Appelbaum said Kiare molested the boy at the beach, in a grocery store, at a restaurant, at a bus stop and on a bus.
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